Nick Estes - guitar, vocals
Holly Senchak - guitar, keyboard, vocals
Ben Hilt - bass
Bobbis Bihlman - drums
make her cry.
live
.. The Making of Gunner Car Remx Video (short clip)
Influences
soul coughing, ben folds, ween, elvis costello, bjork, the beatles, wilco.... things that happen every day, etc...etc....
Sounds Like
our bio says this: The songs have been compared to anything from Ben Folds Five, the Pixies, Weezer and Camper Van Beethoven to moments of Portisehead, Ween, and the Beautiful South.
Wonderful Smith is a rock quartet from Chicago, USA. Their first full-length album (Hello, it's Wonderful) was completed with Steve Albini at Electrical Audio in Chicago. On this debut album, you'll find many sounds to describe them.
Male and female vocals sing both solo and in harmony, opening up vast emotional and tonal possibilities. Nick plays guitar and brings a Beatles-esque sense of melodic sarcasm. Holly is the multi-instrumentalist (piano, guitar, synth) who brings with her the energy, the dark, and the luscious. Behind them is the rockin' drumming of Bobbis accompanied by Ben on the electric, fuzz, and upright basses.
The songwriting in Wonderful Smith is both combined and separate, and the result is Wonderful. The harsh stands next to the warm. The timid makes way for the brash. The songs have been compared to anything from Ben Folds Five, the Pixies, Weezer and Camper Van Beethoven to moments of Portisehead, Ween, and the Beautiful South. Perhaps it was put best by Chicago DJ Richard Milne (93XRT) when describing Wonderful Smith's sound:
"I had so many options that were viable for this show to play. Nothing on here (Hello, it's Wonderful) is typical of their sound. Their sound is very diverse." -- dj richard milne, wxrt chicago
Wonderful Smith has seen a lot of early success with nothing but a three song EP and even continues to write and perform new material immediately after the completion of their debut album. The members diverse variety of influences manifesting itself into one band makes for an exciting live experience and forever complicates the task of defining their sound.
Opening support for national touring acts OAR, Lifehouse, and Evan Dando of the Lemonheads, band members opened for Wilco, G. Love & Special Sauce
Listen to Batching It's debut album "Homage" in it's entirety before it is released! CD out in January 2010! Featuring songs by NOFX, Skankin' Pickle, Swingin' Utters, Pearl Jam, Rancid, Lagwagon, Metallica, Sublime, No Use For a Name, Smashing Pumpkins, Weezer, No Doubt, The Descendents, Less Than Jake and Operation Ivy!
Algren's farewell show will take place on Friday, November 20 at the Elbo Room in Chicago. Please join us as we celebrate 3 years of great music and memories.
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Hi Wonderful Smith, It's a pleasure 2 meet you. Thank you 4 ADDing us 2 YourSpace. We're happy to B. your friend. Keep on the good energy. Peace and Love (-: B. Eitan
Richie here...our website is finally moving forward... you can go to the chitownbluesband.com and check it out. Please let me know your thoughts as to how it looks, feels, sounds and so on....I really want your input as the development moves forward...Richie
Check out the Independent Arts and Music Festival (I AM Fest) taking place at the Congress Theatre on Saturday, June 13. Algren joins 24 other bands and numerous artists at this all day 100% local event. Visit www.iamfest.com for more info!
