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The Sharp Things is a New York City-based chamber-pop collective led by singer/songwriter Perry Serpa. Current members are Steve Gonzalez, Jim Santo, Aisha Cohen, Michelle Caputo, James Pertusi, Andrea Dovalle, Bob Byrne and Adrienne Day.

The band originated in the late 1990’s as a recording project of Serpa and drummer Gonzalez. The band’s name was taken from the title of an unreleased demo tape, Here Come The Sharp Things, which in turn was taken from a lyric to a never-recorded song, the title of which is now forgotten. Guitarist Santo (formerly of Jenifer Convertible), joined in 1997 and the trio adopted The Sharp Things as its name for performances at small clubs on the Lower East Side of New York City.

The Sharp Things steadily added members over the next few years and began to broaden its musical pallette with strings, horns, woodwinds, keyboards and other instruments. The group’s first album, Here Comes The Sharp Things (an entirely different set of songs from the similarly entitled demo tape) was released in the United States in 2002 on Dive Records.

Comprised of songs recorded by two different ensembles in 2000 and 2001, and largely produced by Serpa and Santo in the former’s basement studio in Queens, New York, Here Comes The Sharp Things won critical acclaim for its lush, melancholy blend of British folk, classical music, jazz and 1970’s radio pop influences.
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