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Los Angeles, United States (2007 – present)

A Fine Frenzy is a band led by Alison Sudol (born December 23, 1984 in Seattle, Washington), an American singer, songwriter and pianist. They released their first studio album One Cell in the Sea on July 17, 2007.

Born in Seattle to dramatic-arts teacher parents, Alison moved to Los Angeles, US at the age of five. With her newly single mother, Alison moved frequently around the city. She developed a strong love for the fantastic literary worlds of CS Lewis, EB White, Lewis Carroll and Charles Dickens, while becoming a passionate author in her own right.

In an interview with www.spinner.com Alison Sudol shares how she came up with the band’s name “(I) had a bunch of books open on a table, “a fine frenzy” jumped off a page of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and it was just right, though every now and then I wonder if it’s a bit … flowery.”

Alison also immersed herself in classical music, Motown, Aretha Franklin, swing bands, Ella Fitzgerald, Elton John, Louis Armstrong, The Beatles, Technicolor movies and classic 1950’s television.

After teaching herself to play piano, Alison increasingly invested her internal narratives into song form. She found solace in the melodic melancholia of new global British bands Aqualung, Radiohead, Coldplay, Keane, etc… She was also moved by the diatonic minimalism of Philip Glass and the transportive allure of Icelandic music (Björk, Sigur Rós). She graduated from Delphi Academy Los Angeles in 2001. Inspired, Alison Sudol developed the sound of A Fine Frenzy - hypnotic piano arrangements under classic American melody fused into irresistible, atmospheric songs with the power to reach around the world.
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  • tallinspace

    I think that Pines is easily the best thing she's ever done. I love that she's progressing as an artist and hasn't stagnated. (2)

    20 May 1:15pm Reply

  • trackaghost

    I think that Pines is easily the best thing she's ever done. I love that she's progressing as an artist and hasn't stagnated.

    19 May 3:17am Reply

  • swarmsea

    @MachineOfaDream, do you like other story telling albums like Tori Amos "Scarlet's Walk" or Joanna Newsom "Have One on Me"? I get why Pines isn't high in rakings, already explained in here: http://www.last.fm/music/A+Fine+Frenzy/Pines

    11 May 12:11pm Reply

  • swarmsea

    @JustAKayee it matters to someone

    11 May 12:09pm Reply

  • MarcusLMosnter

    Pines is a hard album because is much more experimental than the first two ones, but it's a magic album and I love every second of it, if it wasn't the lyrical content of OCOTS that means so much for me, Pines would be my favorite.

    10 May 2:30am Reply

  • MachineOfaDream

    Oh come on now, people wondering why Pines isn't high on her rankings or saying Pines hasn't done well due to lack of marketing. A Fine Frenzy has gotten plenty enough exposure - enough to make almost any other artist extremely jealous. I've heard her in supermarkets and on TV shows more than once, and Now is the Start got promotion on TV as well. Pines isn't doing that well because it's not that exciting of an album. It is what it is. If you're into Pines, good for you. I envy you. I'm a huge fan of her first two albums but struggle to listen to Pines.

    6 May 8:24am Reply

  • diegostrehl

    cute ♥

    5 May 5:48pm Reply

  • JustAKayee

    Does it honestly matter? The album cover thing? =/

    4 May 9:27pm Reply

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    27 Apr 9:27pm Reply

  • ASummerKiss

    New discovery for me....love at first listen (all her music)....♥♥♥

    25 Apr 10:04pm Reply

  • AlastorFate

    I like all her songs. :3

    25 Apr 3:25pm Reply

  • swarmsea

    @Nokturrnus: what do you think is the case?... It keeps changing, maybe the label has been setting for yellow one quit a bit, but I remember a year ago an instant duel between these two. I would just love to see autumn cover once in like two months.

    24 Apr 9:02am Reply

  • Nokturrnus

    swarmsea: Although there are some two-cover albums where I strongly prefer one over another, this one is not the case (but I prefer autumn cover). So I don't see a reason to do this.

    23 Apr 9:41am Reply

  • wildstanzas

    ♥

    22 Apr 7:00pm Reply

  • swarmsea

    Okay, there's an elephant in this room and I would like to get i out of here! Clearly, we all are Alison's fans, can we make a group or something like that and address the issue of "One Cell in the Sea" album cover?... I get that there are people with different album covers, but it's not fair that there are people who constantly live for the yellow one, doing everything in their power to vote the autumn one down, come on! Let's make something like, once in a two months we get a yellow, then after two months we can have an autumn cover. And it would all be fair, without pissing anyone off.

    22 Apr 5:46pm Reply

  • thais-paiva

    Electric Twist ♥

    22 Apr 12:26am Reply

  • Isabel94

    Liking Pines a lot so far

    19 Apr 11:59am Reply

  • juliadn

    alguém tem o link pro download do cd Pines?

    13 Apr 10:49pm Reply

  • Krajan96

    They Can't If You Don't Let Them is magic! @__@

    12 Apr 10:07am Reply

  • mehdi483

    Pines ♥

    12 Apr 7:56am Reply
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