Steven Rhodes
(Tristan Peach played bass & electric guitar on Secrets, bass on Remake & drums on Devil. What a trooper. Sometimes Danny & Jessica help out also with drum loops, keyboard and violin)
Influences
Music
Belle and Sebastian, Sodastream, The Magnetic Fields, Tom Waits, Gillian Welch, The Shins, REM, Neil Young, Camera Obscura, Rolling Stones, Sufjan Stevens, Ween, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Art of Fighting, Nick Cave, Elliot Smith, Midlake, The Kingsbury Manx, The Beatles, Jason Molina/Magnolia Electric Co, Leonard Cohen, Eels,The Essex Green, Iron & Wine, The Kinks, The New Pornographers, Will Oldham, Nick Drake, Badly Drawn Boy, Radiohead, Rufus Wainwright, Augie March, Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Loney Dear, Jens Lekman, Okkervil River, Arcade Fire, Nada Surf, Darren Hanlon, Velvet Underground, The Strokes
Comedy
Flight of the Conchords, The Mighty Boosh, Arj Barker, Demetri Martin, Spaced, Arrested Development, Curb your Enthusiasm, Peep Show, Black Books, The Office (uk), Extras, Garth Merenghi's Darkplace, Seinfeld, I'm Alan Partridge, The Simpsons, Shaun Micallef, Stephen Wright, David O'Doherty, Simon Pegg
Film
David Lynch, Wes Anderson, Jim Jarmusch, Coen Brothers, David Cronenberg, Paul Thomas Anderson, Ang Lee, Terry Gilliam, Todd Solondz, Spike Jonze, Stanley Kubrick, Charlie Kaufman, Edgar Wright, Robert Altman, Tim Burton, Christopher Guest
Sounds Like
A precise and exact amalgamation of the above influences in equal percentages
The Transparent Cube is Steven Rhodes pretending to be a band. I write and record songs and do artwork and such. I like owls, swallows, robins, hoop pines, the deep-sea, wind in the trees, shooting stars, train travel at dusk, blue-green (the colour), late-afternoon-walking, lightning, odd humour, hallways, mythological creatures, glowing lights through windows, suburban-rural edges, the crescent moon, colour theory, and writing on fogged up windows. Also Blue Sparrows (a fictional bird. The same as a regular sparrow but is irridescent blue and only comes out at night during bittersweet, emotion-charged events. Or so I understand)
What?
Melodic, folkish, darkish, pop songs that are usually in a minor key. I use guitars, ukelele, mandolin (very sparingly), keyboards, recorders & drum programming.
Where?
I record in my bedroom. My computer is wedged between my bed and a wall, making the process of recording simultaneously impractical and infuriating. I use my PC with a desktop pencil microphone and an ad-hoc stretched-stocking pop screen. Inserting leads into my soundcard may or may not induce total shutdown.
When?
The songs included here were recorded over the last 6 years or so. I’m not sure as to exactly what days. I could probably find out but it would be a lot of effort and for very little remuneration.
Why?
Who are you!! Why do you keep asking me these questions?? How did you get in here?
I’m not from a musical background but somehow gravitated towards songwriting. Like how thousands of thrashing mackerel might gravitate towards a trawler net. While my songs may lack the gloss of studio production and mastering, I’m pretty happy with the quality given my limited instrumental ability and unreliable vocal skills.
I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4
Hello. Thank you! Hope you enjoy the songs. Don’t forget to check out our Christmas contest for a chance to win a free limited edition digipack of ‘Shadow of a Dream’. All the best/Keep in Touch deep sleep
Hello plus more!! Thanks to the wonders of interweb technology and other futuristic fancy you can now buy our cd/mp3 from any corner of the earth! Just click the pretty picture. ....
Oh also! I love that drawing you left me in my doodley thing xD sorry for the late. response. I like. just noticed who it was from, haha. failure :c <3
My style is actually pretty smooth outside of pencil and paper :c I just. kind of hate drawing on paper. The undo button is my best friend cause I dont usually sketch before I draw things.
And you should B'c be warned. its not compatible with macs though.
Well,I doodle Noel and stuff every once in awhile. Like. here, this is the last time I drew him. Not that impressive, but hey. I was on a plane I guess. I havent attempted anyone other than him lately though :c I need to.
And uhhh, no. Actually. Photoshop is too stiff for me, Ive got a free program called OpenCanvas. Its the best
