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Electro Group are a super noisy dream pop band from Sacramento, CA, with ethereal vocals, very similar to My Bloody Valentine or Alison’s Halo. Their new album, Good Technology, was released by Clairecords in Fall 2007.
Comprised of “three like minded and cautiously optimistic gentlemen out to create and build songs culled from years of self-induced isolationism, sexual regret, and audio experimentation”, Electro Group teamed up with local Sacramento imprint Omnibus Records (The Shins, Mates of State, Flake Music) to issue their 2001 debut, A New Pacifica. Its tracks surfaced on more than a few tastemaking college and community radio stations, and even made it to the playlist of legendary BBC DJ John Peel. A slew of compilation appearances and side projects followed: Electro Group recorded a series of split 7-inches, teamed up with Pavement cofounder Gary Young for a cover of Sonic Youth’s “100%,” and bassist Ian Hernandez formed Holy Smokes with Pinback’s Rob Crow and Hella’s Zach Hill. Live appearances with Sleater-Kinney, Quasi and The Swords Project followed, as did a tour of the UK, and their next studio venture, the 2004 seven-track mini-album Ummo. With their second proper full-length, Good Technology, Electro Group had to destroy their conceptions of not only music, but modern life in general, and reconstruct them from square one. While A New Pacifica explored a utopian society in the aftermath of California falling into the sea and Ummo queried, “Are we alone in the universe?,” Good Technology finds Electro Group in a deconstructionalist mindset.
Comprised of “three like minded and cautiously optimistic gentlemen out to create and build songs culled from years of self-induced isolationism, sexual regret, and audio experimentation”, Electro Group teamed up with local Sacramento imprint Omnibus Records (The Shins, Mates of State, Flake Music) to issue their 2001 debut, A New Pacifica. Its tracks surfaced on more than a few tastemaking college and community radio stations, and even made it to the playlist of legendary BBC DJ John Peel. A slew of compilation appearances and side projects followed: Electro Group recorded a series of split 7-inches, teamed up with Pavement cofounder Gary Young for a cover of Sonic Youth’s “100%,” and bassist Ian Hernandez formed Holy Smokes with Pinback’s Rob Crow and Hella’s Zach Hill. Live appearances with Sleater-Kinney, Quasi and The Swords Project followed, as did a tour of the UK, and their next studio venture, the 2004 seven-track mini-album Ummo. With their second proper full-length, Good Technology, Electro Group had to destroy their conceptions of not only music, but modern life in general, and reconstruct them from square one. While A New Pacifica explored a utopian society in the aftermath of California falling into the sea and Ummo queried, “Are we alone in the universe?,” Good Technology finds Electro Group in a deconstructionalist mindset.
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A New Pacifica
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Shoutbox
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caleb_core wrote:
This band is extremely talented.
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SarahLoomer wrote:
You're all crazy. A New Pacifica is one of the best produced shoe gaze albums... (suspenseful pause...) ever! It's hard to find fuzz this good.
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elephantman5 wrote:
Time to tour again... pweese
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CURED wrote:
not bad for a nu-gazer
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KMFCM wrote:
the Swirlies or Seely I dig it
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dostav wrote:
They remind me too much of The Swirlies.
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sing-sing wrote:
...surrounded in a mask of feedback...The vocals are gentle enough to be uninteresting, even though the instrumentation quite often drowns them out. None of it adds up to music that's worth hearing even once.
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