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New York, United States (2001 – present)
Department of Eagles began in 2001, when Daniel Rossen and Fred Nicolaus were randomly assigned to live together by New York University. During their academically lax spring semester, they made an “album” of beat-type songs best described as “What DJ Shadow’s retarded little brother would sound like.” Nevertheless, a small record company in California heard the CDR and wanted to release a couple of 7” singles. Around that time, a friend’s father, Jeff Saltzman, invited the group to record in his new studio. Fred and Dan used the opportunity to record the bulk of their debut album, which featured a blend of the beat-type stuff and more straightforward songwriting. It was released in 2003 and did fine, selling a modest number of copies and garnering some decent press.
In 2004, the group graduated from college and moved into an apartment in Brooklyn with an aggressive, hirsute landlord named Baki. Shortly thereafter, Daniel joined the group Grizzly Bear and began playing guitar and singing with them (he went on to write a goodly portion of their sophomore album, Yellow House). Fred tried to escape his boring magazine job by going on tour opening up for the band Subtle, but the tour was cancelled when Subtle’s bus crashed, tragically injuring keyboardist Dax Pierson. DOE was on something of a hiatus.
In 2004, the group graduated from college and moved into an apartment in Brooklyn with an aggressive, hirsute landlord named Baki. Shortly thereafter, Daniel joined the group Grizzly Bear and began playing guitar and singing with them (he went on to write a goodly portion of their sophomore album, Yellow House). Fred tried to escape his boring magazine job by going on tour opening up for the band Subtle, but the tour was cancelled when Subtle’s bus crashed, tragically injuring keyboardist Dax Pierson. DOE was on something of a hiatus.
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The Whitey on the Moon UK LP
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The Cold Nose
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Sailing by Night
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On Glaze
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Family Romance
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Noam Chomsky Spring Break 2002
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Origin of Love
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imkoreansowhat wrote:
just as good.
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MrUniversalMind wrote:
The Cold Nose takes the cake.
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Ethaneeze wrote:
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lukeloseth wrote:
not better, not worse. the world needs equal amounts of both.
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AhoraEsNunca wrote:
Es sexy
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xephyrous wrote:
grizzly bear = boring imo
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my2morning wrote:
'noam chomsky..' Beautiful :)
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bektravels wrote:
Happy to have both:)
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fallinon wrote:
better than gb for me too
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radiotim7 wrote:
better than gb
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greene1994 wrote:
as good as gb. would kill for a new album sometime this year
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boxes_eat_them wrote:
maybe not better than GB, but more pop and catchy.
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LowJoker wrote:
and Ear Park does kind of sound like Veckatimest^2. just a little bit.
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antonjr wrote:
they have one mutual member
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onelittleatlas wrote:
what's with the grizzly bear comparisons?
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xephyrous wrote:
better than grizzly bear
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LowJoker wrote:
lol, these niggas are dope as fuck, I'd prefer them to just about any other artist in their genre.
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LowJoker wrote:
PLAYSTATION 2
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LowJoker wrote:
FORTY DOLLAR RUG.
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dying-is-fine wrote:
"in ear park" is simply too amazing to be listed... that's why :D
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13 Apr 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/deptofeagles
Hello So the DoE won't be out and about for a while. There are so many (very exciting) things going on with Grizzly Bear these days that my head is spinning a bit. It's time to focus in on the task a.. …
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