BROOKLYN, New York
United States

Industrial / Psychedelic / Pop

According to their MySpace page, their excellent album "Travel Book" can be downloaded at:
www.arpline.com

released 16 February 2010
ArpLine "Travel Book"

All songs by Sam Tyndall

ArpLine:
Adam De Rosa- guitars
Oliver Edsforth- keyboards, saxophone
Nathan Lithgow- bass, back-up vocals
Michael Chap Resnick- percussion, programming
Sam Tyndall- vocals, additional guitar, additional bass, programming & synthesizers

Additional back-up vocals by Andrea Hendrickson

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Letting Up Despite Great Faults is the indie electro-based sonic diary of founding member Mike Lee. Their 2009 self-titled debut LP was met with unanimous critical acclaim, garnering rave reviews from the likes of Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, and countless music blogs. Since then, they've refined and expanded their sound, bridging the gap between lo-fi, shoegaze and indiepop. As they continue their evolution, Aquarium Drunkard declares "if there was ever a band to spearhead the recent renaissance of dream-pop fever then this is the act to get invested in." They have been compared to similar artists such as New Order, The Postal Service, M83, and The Radio Dept.

"blissful, shimmery..."
-Rolling Stone

"both nostalgic and caught in a moment that feels never-ending"
-NPR

"an unexpected pleasure"
-Pitchfork.com

"music that's light as a feather and ephemeral as a dream."
-Interview Mag

"if there was ever a band to spearhead the recent renaissance of dream-pop fever then this is the act to get invested in"
-Aquarium Drunkard

"enough upbeat pep in its step to make the dog days of summer a little cooler"
-I Guess I'm Floating

"captures the essence of teen dreams"
-USA Today

"Fall for the band's dreamy electronica sound"
-MAGNET Magazine

"Eclectic, heartbreaking and full of shoegaze glory, the Los Angeles, Calif. band's latest is their best yet"
-AOL/Spinner

"Friday afternoon surprise"
-MSN

"songs as sweet as blood orange flavored lollipops and as hazy as the golden hour sun on the Santa Monica pier"
-yvynyl

"Within the folds of atmospheric pop laced with shivery electronica "
-My Old Kentucky Blog

"this is a band that should no longer go ignored."
-Consequence of Sound

"perfect dream-pop "
-FensePost

"only get better with each record"
-The Owl Mag

"a smooth ride of sun, sea and sweeping sands"
-The 405

"a rather fantastic EP"
-Death + Taxes

"they'll be going places soon enough"
-North American Scum

"Jesus what a great song"
-Life After Nirvana

" beautiful, lifting fusion of gentle vocals and soaring synth-based instrumentals"
-Kata Rokkar

"It's amazing how effortless the band is able to sound while packing in all these feel good sounds."
-We All Want Someone To Shout For

"what to do when the heat has got you down? Distract yourself with a summertime playlist, duh. And we have the perfect addition- Letting Up Despite Great Faults."
-The Music Slut

"This is the kind of summery music that invented the term 'summery music'"
-32ft/second

"I gotta tell you straight away it's one damn good song."
-Against The Odds

"Get ready folks, as this is something really special."
-Austin Town Hall

"like the Jesus & Mary Chain smothered in honey"
-The Devil Has The Best Tuna

"filled with delicious indie-pop gems"
-Some Velvet Blog

"splendid works of magic"
-Burning World

"bedroom-project-turned-pop-darlings"
-Buzzbands.la

"amazing, shoe-gazing indie-pop"
-DefineUs

"Soft indie pop vocals with big electro sounds and thick guitars make for a perfect storm with these guys"
-Each Note Secure

"transcend influences and deliver something that is both unique and arresting."
-The Ash Gray Proclamation

"If they'd occurred a decade ago they would have run alongside Lush, the Pale Saints and the Drop Nineteens and would very definitely have been signed to 4AD"
-Magnetic Magazine

"feel-good melancholy"
-Exclaim!

"4/5"
-Baeble

"fuzzed-out guitars, blippy synths, and the free-floating vocals"
-Tea Party Boston: Interview 3/13/10

"A-"
-Pop Tarts Suck Toasted

"The instrumentation was consistently top notch"
-Music Induced Euphoria: Noise Pop Concert Review 2/27/10

"I can't get enough of it"
-Off The Radar

"Charmingly brilliant stuff"
-The Pop! Stereo

"sweet, hazy, noisy greatness"
-DBF-Music.com

"magical songs that make you fall instantly in love"
-The Indie Music Database: Video of the Week 5/10/10

"they're going to blow up very soon."
-The Tape

"beautiful euphoric tones"
-Einstein Music Journal

"a perfect marriage of M83 and Slowdive"
-QRO Magazine

"4 stars"
-Groovemine

"good-for-your-health audio"
-Ohh! Crapp

"evokes sunshine induced feelings while still sounding like a rainy day"
-DeckFight

"Bashfully bittersweet shoegaze"
-Earworm, Much Music

"so good"
-kid_for_today

"we already love these up-and-comers"
-Sheena Beaston

"one to watch"
-Scottish Friction

"beautifully somber soundscapes with a clear pop aesthetic"
-The Sky Report

"acts as the perfect accompaniment to a lazy afternoon lying in the sun and helps to make long hot summer days that much more enjoyable & relaxing"
-Eclectically Challenged

"electronic pop masterminds"
-Knox Road

"pop-y, dreamy vocals"
-The Fox Is Black

"One of the most underrated pop bands in the United States"
-Twentyseven Views

" gives us is a song that's much more enjoyable than perhaps our teenage years ever were."
-In Your Speakers

"songs that i'm not afraid to call 'perfect'"
-Me, And All My Friends

"simply gorgeous"
-BandsOfTheBay.com

"the perfect slouchy cableknit for breezy days and changing seasons."
-Luxury Wafers

"enchanted melodies that make you feel all sorts of warm and wonderful."
-No Conclusion

"loving every single minute of it"
-Indiehere

"the perfect soundtrack for a teenage romance."
-In This Week

"The perfect soundtrack for snow gazing out a train window."
-5 Acts

"dreamy LA-based band"
-Welikeit.indie

"the band's fuzzy hazy sense of pop is quite filling"
-TwentySeven Views

"the video of Our Younger Noise has 'Hello Summer' written all over on it"
-AudioPorn Central

"all kinds of shimmery ambient crescendos crashing like the waves in the Pacific. "
-Cause=Time

"will whisk you off to somewhere far from here"
-CYSTSFTS

"wash of shoegaze dream pop"
-Impressionable Youth

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Home Video are Collin Ruffino and David Gross, transplants from the misunderstood landscape of New Orleans, now living in the brooding brownstones of Brooklyn, New York. Here they revel in a self-created world of references to Edward Gorey, Massive Attack, The Brothers Quay, Smashing Pumpkins, and a dusting of Chopin, references that they have been collecting for nearly ten years.

They connected in high school art class in 1997. Under the instruction of an eccentric painter, who claimed to have been raised in a Louisiana chateau where servants peeled grapes for him to eat, they spent hours drawing still lives of twisted vegetables and rendering the chiaroscuro of adolescent self portraits. Outside of art class, they made a short narrative video starring David, and directed by Collin, a collaborative set up that continues still and perhaps an influence for their band name.

At the time Collin wore all black, listened to Nine Inch Nails and Smashing Pumpkins, and was in a band called The Great and Secret Show. David, a classical pianist in training and the son of two classical musicians, had been sheltered from the Top 40, or anything composed after 1900. It wasn't until Collin played him a cassette tape of The Great and Secret Show that David realized pop music had the potential to be as emotionally impacting as classical. Collin continued pulling him into the 20th century, introducing him to albums like Mezzanine, Dummy, and OK Computer. David started playing keyboards for the band.

College scattered the members of the Great and Secret Show, David in Boston studying music and philosophy, Collin in New York studying film, but they remained in touch and created music together during summer breaks. Once the distraction of higher education was out of the way, they reconvened with New York as home and soon discovered a new sound as their latest incarnation, Home Video. The first Home Video song came to them in the dead of winter, the blizzard of 2003. As the piling snow erased the landscape outside his window, David huddled over the warm vibrations of an analog synthesizer creating the simple loop that first inspired their minimalist sound. The fear and anxiety of New York's atmosphere at the time had eaten its way onto the pages of Collin's tattered notebooks and became their confessional style of lyrics. Underlined by a thumping, bass-rich beat, the pairing of the two worked well and the song evolved into "Melon," the first Home Video song created and the closing track on the album. Inspired by their new philosophy, other songs quickly followed and the band sent out demos.

Originally discovered by Warp Records, the label released Home Video's first two EPs in 2004, both packaged in sleeves illustrated by Collin's dark, Gorey-esque drawings. "That You Might", a 10" single, immediately picked up considerable attention in Britain from BBC Radio 1 and the NME, while the five song Citizen EP earned the band a feature in Rolling Stone. In 2006, New York based Defend Music released their debut full length, No Certain Night Or Morning. Grammy-nominated DJ Sasha picked two of the songs from this album to remix for his most recent release, Involver 2, which also included songs from Thom Yorke, Ladytron, M83, and Apparat. Home Video themselves have recently taken to the role of remixer, reworking songs for bands like Bear in Heaven, Wave Machines, Faunts, Bang Gang, and friends Naked Hearts.

As electronic-rock producers and performers, they record everything themselves, then adapt it live into a full on rock show with live drums and hypnotic visual projections. After sharing a bill in London at the start of Home Video's first European tour, Blonde Redhead were so impressed that they invited the band to support them for three weeks of shows in North America. Since then they have opened for such diverse acts as Justice, Yeasayer, Flying Lotus, Pinback, DJ Krush, Colder, and Radio 4. Taking advantage of Ruffino's film education, the band has also made several of their own music videos. The band's video for "I Can Make You Feel It" premiered on MTV2's Subterranean, and had over 200,000 views after being featured for a week on the front page of YouTube.com.

With their new album, The Automatic Process, the band layers samples, synthesizers, piano, guitar, and live drums to build an electro-tinted minimalist rock that drives steadily towards the sublime -- a spacious soundtrack evocative of a fractured dream.

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"MillionYoung is a pseudonym for South Florida's Mike Diaz. Mike's music is a refreshing form of Chillwave, with a lot of bright synths, dreamy dripping nostalgia inducing backdrops and the occasional guitar. He released his first EP in 2009, entitled "Sunndream". His second EP was released in early 2010, entitled "Be So True".

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love like deloreans is the electronic collective consciousness of band members lorna krier, derek muro and peter pearson. the band was born of synthesizer dreams and drum machine wishes. drawing from the heady krautrock of bands like cluster to the infectious wish-i-could-stop-dancing grooves of 80s new wave, bubblegum, and disco, love like deloreans creates a sound world that is somewhere between a submarine ride on europa and the best prom night ever.


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Mystery Roar are a dream force of crazy elaborate, deep-space disco. Although they formed less than a year ago, Mystery Roar have already become Boston's premiere dance-pop band. Glowing media attention came quickly, including declarations that Mystery Roar are "the number one band to watch in 2010!" by both the Boston Herald and Phoenix. In recognition of their ability to get a crowd amped and dancing, Mystery Roar were asked to share the stage with national acts like Delorean, Neon Indian, Das Racist, Tiger City, and Har Mar Superstar, gaining new fans with each appearance simply through the skill and joy of their playing, and the strength of their songwriting and showmanship.

Mystery Roar are a diverse crew of individuals that share an intense love of music. Like Hunt and Tony Sales, the late, great Soupy's kids who played with Iggy Pop and David Bowie, Patrick and Andrew are brothers who play bass and drums. But they do so with the extra-sensory precision that comes with being identical twins. Born in the city of steel and Andy Warhol, Tia is especially adept at transforming the metallic tones of vocoders and synthesizers into pop.

Jake, Joseph, and Nathanael were three hardscrabble kids trying to make it out of Scranton alive, and they did: together, to Boston. Joseph studied audio production and Jake studied art -- skills that continue to inform their cerebral and soulful musicianship. The pair provides guitars, synths and also sing the high and middle vocal harmonies. Nathanael -- a once-awkward gay kid, now a confident and formidable frontman -- provides the unique silky baritone voice that keeps hooking new listeners.

Early on, Dopamine Records recognized a camaraderie with Mystery Roar. Dopamine has on their roster both guitar bands and dance DJs, and Mystery Roar navigate that wonderful space between. Mystery Roar's danceable music has been remixed by Soul Clap, Jensen Sportag, the Bodega Girls, and label mate DJ Die Young. Mystery Roar's self titled EP will be released by Dopamine Records on 4/13/2010. The release is vinyl and digital only.

The R&B-styled dance-pop gems that comprise Mystery Roar are melodically adventurous and instantly arresting; but repeated listens reveal their rich sonic layers and rhythmic complexities. Accompanied by phenomenal collagist artwork designed to be stared into, the EP ranges from uptempo psych-disco to lovelorn quiet storm ballads. Critical comparisons have included Talking Heads, MGMT, Hall and Oates, Chromeo, Passion Pit, and Roxy Music. The band members themselves might add Afro-beat, deep disco, and Italo as influences.

"Mystery Roar couch tremulous, crooning vocals in beds of shimmering disco and hip-throwing grooviness." - The Phoenix
"Music to pour a glass of red and lay naked on a bear-skin rug to, this Roar screams next big thing." - The Herald
"Hand clap beats, filthy bass grooves and cooly effected vocals in a scandalous man on machine love affair." - The Metro
"These keyboard-wielding buddies have made impromptu groove-a-thons a habit as regular as eating breakfast or brushing your teeth." - Weekly Dig
"A winkingly retro-minded band that's never met a Casio it didn't like, Mystery Roar mashes up its penchants for '80s new wave, freestyle, and a seriously deep love of Giorgio Moroder." - Boston Globe

*2010 The Phoenix Best Music Poll: Best New Act nominee
*2009 Boston Music Award: New Act of the Year nominee

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