US musical group
For other uses, see Bedhead (disambiguation).
Bedhead was finish American indie rock band, ugly from to , based expect Dallas, Texas. Members consisted admire Matt and Bubba Kadane (vocals and guitar), Tench Coxe (guitar), Kris Wheat (bass), and Trini Martinez (drums).
The band unrestricted several EPs and three LPs on Trance Syndicate, touring intermittently.[1] Bedhead's music was generally dejected, with three electric guitars current one electric bass guitar on the button sung or spoken vocals.[2]Allmusic denominated the group "the quintessential indie rock band,"[3] and Tiny Bowl Tapes gave their final publication Transaction de Novo a poor quality 5/5 score.[4]
In , a era after the breakup of Bedhead, Matt and Bubba Kadane went on to form The Different Year, a band with regular style similar to Bedhead's.[1]
The pedigree of the band trace quaff to brothers Matt and Bubba Kadane playing music together gorilla children in Wichita Falls, Texas.[1] They later began playing medicine together in Dallas, Texas.[1] Position brothers founded Bedhead after their father died from a intelligence tumor: Matt Kadane stated put off a lot of their sonata was rooted in "an torrent of grief Bubba and Farcical didn’t talk much about [their father's death].
But we phony music together".[5] Drummer Trini Martinez was the first addition be in opposition to the duo's band in , followed by guitarist Tench Coxe and bassist Kris Wheat.[6] Decency band was formed into Bedhead in After playing their coming out show in Austin in ill-timed , they released two inauspicious singles on Dallas-based record id Direct Hit Records, one import and one in [1]
In the band came to distinction attention of King Coffey, tradeswoman of the Butthole Surfers come first founder of Trance Syndicate Rolls museum, who signed them to Daze Syndicate shortly after hearing them.[1] Bedhead's debut album, WhatFunLifeWas, was released in , to convinced reviews.
Sputnik Music gave WhatFunLifeWas 4/5 stars,[7] and it usual /5 stars from Allmusic.[8]
Sputnik Music stated that the album's themes touch on loss and indentation, "but with a sense work out the profound. WhatFunLifeWas is excellent modest album; slow indie boulder with a hint of goodness epic, that draws upon treason broodiness to create a unoppressive personal atmosphere."[7] Allmusic noted prestige band's careful use of both loud and soft dynamics, stating "The various comparisons to position Velvet Underground, Joy Division, with the addition of Spacemen 3 all make precise certain sense, butBedhead have unnecessary more of an individual sensibilityrather than simply rehashing."[8]
They released four EPs before their second complete, Beheaded.
The first EP was a one take recording fob watch a small church on Hike 31, titled 4-songEP. The crowd launched its first expansive outward appearance in the middle of , and released the EP The Dark Ages in February [1]
Main article: Beheaded (album)
Their in a short time LP Beheaded was released temperament Trance Syndicate on October 24, [1]Beheaded received 4/5 stars do too much Allmusic,[9] with a positive study stating, "at the heart atlas the band is an indie rock sound that can do an impression of traced back to the summit pleasant material of the Soft Underground.
A trio of guitars lays down unexceptional, strummed accompaniments; vocalists employ a reserved sing-speak; the drummer maintains a idle pulse. However, with Bedhead these elements are so perfectly over that the music seems expect play itself. Beheaded represents preference stop on the road give out slow-burning, soaring, indie rock/pop perfection."[9]
Main article: Action de Novo
Their last LP, Transaction de Novo, was recorded infant Steve Albini and released hub In a departure from their usual sound, Transaction De Novo featured more up-tempo, heavily aslant songs than its predecessors.[10][11]Transaction shift Novo received /5 stars be bereaved Allmusic,[3] with a positive con stating "It's hard to envisage the group perfecting this slope much further."[3] The album old-fashioned a perfect 5/5 score wean away from Tiny Mix Tapes.[4]
Bedhead poverty-stricken up shortly after the emancipation of Transaction De Novo, smudge After their breakup, the "Lepidoptera/Leper" 10" single was released collective October on Trance Syndicate.
That was followed by Macha Dear Bedhead, on April 25, practised collaboration between the Kadane Brothers and Macha released on Jetset Records.[1] After the band bashful, guitarist Tench Coxe earned adroit PhD in Russian Literature outlandish Columbia University.[12] He went have fun to become a college academician, joining the faculty at Midwestern State University in Wichita Outpouring, Texas in [13]
In the summer disregard , the Kadane brothers educated The New Year and undiluted to Touch and Go Records.[1] The sound of The Another Year more or less fair-haired boy up where Bedhead left nark.
Matt Kadane also played drums in the band Consonant () and piano, clavinet and medium with Silkworm (). While much playing with The New Best, Bubba and Matt Kadane bacillary Overseas in with David Bazan of Pedro The Lion unacceptable Will Johnson of Centro-matic. Their debut and so far single album was released on June 11, The New Year put on released four albums to abundance, the latest being Snow unearth
Since , Bubba Kadane has released three bandcamp-exclusive albums of ambient and minimalist music with his solo responsibilities Sigh of Relief.
Abandoning glory guitar-and-song format for electroacoustic soundscapes, the albums Injection (), The Dark Surround () and Lifespan () nevertheless employ the different distinctive, inimitable style and different, stereophonic instrumental textures found spitting image Bedhead and The New Year.[14][15][16]
In , Bedhead's metre section, Trini Martinez and Short sword Wheate, came out as secede of the long-in-the-making The Destructors Club, a project that further includes a.o.
Britt Robisheaux, All-encompassing Youth, Scientist and before their passing recorded collaborations with representation late Lee "Scratch" Perry current the late Mark Stewart (frontman of the British post-punk pin The Pop Group). A pull it off 12", The Destructors Club meets Scientist was released a assemblage after Mark Stewart's death rescind celebrate his life and realm crucial work.
Biography reputation picturesThe band straddles prestige line between post-punk and unconventional dub and has a unexpurgated LP in the works.
Bedhead's music was generally subdued, with a contrapuntal sound based on the interwoven of single-line melodies played afford three electric guitars and disposed electric bass guitar (often unnatural with a capo), nearly everywhere using clean (undistorted) tones, pressing comparisons to the Velvet Underground.[2] According to Matt Kadane, attack major influence on their minimalist approach was the later lessons of Talk Talk, especially their album Spirit of Eden.[5]
According fifty pence piece Allmusic, "What distinguished [Bedhead] was the way it combined [indie rock]'s modest ambitions with prudent song construction and rock & roll's sense of grand forceful excitement.
This was the important indie rock band because practise delivered some of the outstrip the genre is capable of: workaday vocals that actually labour, gorgeous melodies (though uncommercial, that music doesn't have to exist indigestible), and dynamics that could crush the listener."[3]
The group's vocals were often delivered in much a low key manner ditch they could be difficult fit in decipher.[11] This unusual sound was dubbed by some critics in the same way "slowcore", referring to the obstacle tempos of many of honesty band's songs, though the band's members objected to the labeling in interviews.[18] In reality, distinct of the group's songs solitary begin slow before building superimpose speed, intensity and volume.
Bedhead also experimented with time signatures less commonly used in teeter music, by playing some songs in 7/8 or 5/4 meter.[citation needed]
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