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Laguardia’s sound comprises crystalline keyboards and spangled guitars elegantly intertwined to produce ornate lattices of shimmering melody. Clambering up them are tartly sweet lead vocals and mischievous backing harmonies. The rhythm section provides well-muscled but agile support, with bass guitar adding bonus tunefulness. Sneaking into New York for their first public performances, they quickly gained a sizeable following and began gaining fans in other bands. Laguardia were touring the U.S. time and again in the company of outfits like Eyes Adrift, Bobby Bare Jr., The Brian Jonestown Massacre and others even before they had a label.
WELCOME TO THE MIDDLE their debut album was recorded in Los Angeles this past Spring with producer Brad Wood (Smashing Pumpkins, Tortoise, Sunny Day Real Estate, Liz Phair, Red Red Meat…) Despite working in an elaborate studio with a name producer, the band stuck to essentials: great songwriting performed with passion and obvious skill. Main singer Joshua Ostrander points out: “We made such an effort to bring the live show to tape. We tried so hard to not overproduce the sounds. We didn’t want to use four guitar tracks or five keyboard tracks when one or two would do. And I wanted my vocals to be totally dry and singular.” On the other hand the band members did take advantage of the studio situation to experiment and expand on certain ideas where they felt it was warranted.
“We’re always trying to come up with new stuff in the studio: what can we add here? Or should it go this way? In the studio there’s time to think, evaluate, and even re-evaluate,” bassist Michael Morpurgo explains.
WELCOME TO THE MIDDLE their debut album was recorded in Los Angeles this past Spring with producer Brad Wood (Smashing Pumpkins, Tortoise, Sunny Day Real Estate, Liz Phair, Red Red Meat…) Despite working in an elaborate studio with a name producer, the band stuck to essentials: great songwriting performed with passion and obvious skill. Main singer Joshua Ostrander points out: “We made such an effort to bring the live show to tape. We tried so hard to not overproduce the sounds. We didn’t want to use four guitar tracks or five keyboard tracks when one or two would do. And I wanted my vocals to be totally dry and singular.” On the other hand the band members did take advantage of the studio situation to experiment and expand on certain ideas where they felt it was warranted.
“We’re always trying to come up with new stuff in the studio: what can we add here? Or should it go this way? In the studio there’s time to think, evaluate, and even re-evaluate,” bassist Michael Morpurgo explains.
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BickShmickle Glad I got a chance to see these guys live back in the day before they broke up.
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aperture01 I love these freakin guys! I'm so mad that they are not together anymore. I kept looking for more music by them, guess there will never be... :(
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