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Brooklyn NY, United States (2006 – 2012)

Brooklyn, New York 2006 - 2012

Extra Life was a band led by New York-based guitarist/vocalist Charlie Looker (member of Ocrilim, ex-Zs and ex-Dirty Projectors). While the music retains some of the heady instrumental abstraction of his work in Zs, Extra Life moves into a far more melodic song-based realm. The compositions are still epic, complex and aggressive, yet with a lush, personal, dramatic spirit; dark, heavy avant chamber pop with a cold Gothic beauty echoing that of Medieval plainsong. In addition to Looker’s voice and guitar, the band includes Tony Gedrich (bass, member of Archaeopteryx), Ian Antonio (drums, member of Zs), Travis Laplante (keyboard, tenor saxophone, member of Little Women) and Caley Monahan-Ward (violin, member of Nat Baldwin Band and Snowblink).
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  • solar_bridge

    Extra Life is dead. Long live Seaven Teares.

    22 Apr 8:18pm Reply

  • adamcooleyisdea

    Brillaint band, completely bummed they broke up

    2 Mar 12:04am Reply

  • DerekMcA

    R.I.P.

    9 Feb 1:04am Reply

  • oaquard

    Yeah, just caught their last show ever last night. Its really hard to believe, especially since they still seemed so together (for lack of a better word).

    20 Jan 5:36pm Reply

  • Agravenlife

    Shucks.

    13 Nov 2012 Reply

  • EraserTunes

    yup, they broke up: http://extralifetheband.blogspot.de/2012/11/extra-life-is-dead.html worst day in music-history

    13 Nov 2012 Reply

  • oaquard

    I'm confused, are they broken up now or not? I've been hearing mixed things.

    17 Sep 2012 Reply

  • atommalac

    can't top the Eddard Stark one.

    19 Jun 2012 Reply

  • oaquard

    Dream Seeds sounds like what I would imagine a collaborative project of Current 93 and Tyondai Braxton would be.

    13 Jun 2012 Reply

  • oaquard

    Oh my god, Discipline for Ed Gein is fucking incredible [666]

    13 Jun 2012 Reply

  • EraserTunes

    part 1: now, after a handfull of concerts and some additional "reefer-test-listenings" i cand finally come to the coclusion that extra life is simply my favorite band of all times. the more i listen to their records the more i love it and the more sounds i discover. the combination of the haunting meoldies that you mostly dont get to fully experiance and apprechiate on a first listen und the innovative vocals make them strangely entertaining. their fearless attitude towards breaking the flow and experimenting with sound puts them in the top places when it comes to avantgarde music. those feeling of apprechiation amplify when you ever had the chance to seem them perform live. their confident, serious and elevated presence can turn their sound into a beast more evil then the kvltest black metal.

    9 Jun 2012 Reply

  • EraserTunes

    part 2: sure, when speaking of their newest album "dream seeds", we talk about a much different one then "made flesh" at least on first listenings. made flesh was much easier to get used to, dream seeds seems to be more demanding. but if you give yourself time to experiance it in severall listenings and under different circumstances, you will see that its equaly as good. maybe even better, when you dig the consistent and sophisticated music of dream seeds. to put it in other words, i think it is their most mature album so far.

    8 Jun 2012 Reply

  • atommalac

    I just received Dream Seeds. What the fuck is this?

    30 May 2012 Reply

  • HYDRE

    Oh my god, Discipline for Eddard Stark is fucking incredible

    26 May 2012 Reply

  • fa010s

    Oh my god, Discipline for Ed Wood is fucking incredible

    17 May 2012 Reply

  • Ceilliun

    My very favourite emo-prog free-jazz wankery! I just cant get enough! The new record is boring, unimpressive and faux-abstract in all the right ways and the bad parts are so excellently terrible! I hope the next album is like this, but even worse!

    11 May 2012 Reply

  • kapitan_govno

    Oh my god, Discipline for Edmond is fucking incredible

    7 May 2012 Reply

  • From-000-to-000

    fockin awesom'

    7 Apr 2012 Reply

  • waffleswaffles

    Oh my god, Discipline for Edward is fucking incredible

    3 Apr 2012 Reply

  • Agravenlife

    lol, abstract.

    30 Mar 2012 Reply
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