OH! Pears, Leverage Models, In One Wind and Son Step

OH! PEARS
Oh! Pears is the brainchild of Philadelphia’s Corey Duncan, a thrilling new voice whose work draws equally from the worlds of indie-pop (Beirut, Grizzly Bear) and classical composition (Ravel, Tchaikovsky) to create enchanting songs with transformative power.

Fill Your Lungs found Duncan exploring a sound a lifetime in the making; setting stunning orchestral arrangements drawn from his family’s long lineage of classical conductors and musicians to urgent, three-minute pop nuggets not far… Show more removed from the stylings of his previous outfit, Pattern Is Movement. It’s an engrossing sound that places Duncan at the forefront of a class of high-minded American songwriters like Van Dyke Parks and Jeremy Enigk.

The songs on Oh! Pears’ debut Fill Your Lungs EP from 2010 deal with startlingly personal themes; "Singers" is about Duncan and his brother forging their own identities amid intense Catholicism. "The Hall" touches on a relative's gradual loss of sight, and how he learns to adjust his life to the change. "A lot of these songs, really, are identity songs," Duncan says. "Who my family is, who my friends are."

While Duncan has assembled groups consisting of anything from solo performances to a 13-piece chamber orchestra (strings, brass, winds, percussion), Oh! Pears toured Europe as a quintet in the summer of 2011, sharing a bill with such bands as TV On The Radio and Buke And Gass. They will be returning to Europe in January 2012 with a new single on the Danish label Kanel Records before finishing a full-length debut in the summer of 2012.

LEVERAGE MODELS
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IN ONE WIND
“Blending and often juxtaposing elements of pretty much any genre out there, from Pop to Doo-Wop Jazz, from Americana to Math Rock, and using all sorts of instruments to do so, Brooklyn’s In One Wind can be described as a big musical carousel. This is obviously a group of people belonging to the that category of musicians who are trying to find new musical paths within the pop realm, and these tracks succeed in being at once entertaining and interesting - something too often both pop and experimental music fail to achieve.” - The Deli Magazine.

“In One Wind is one of the most inventive and satisfying new bands...The configuration is guitar, three voices (two women, one man), stand-up bass, drums, and various reeds and woodwinds. Its orientation is arty in a way that will later date the group as a phenomenon of Brooklyn in the year 2011, but its music is something more than pretentious. It’s not just gimmicky IT-Dept. pop. The band’s debut album, How Bright a Shadow! is exuberantly experimental, neatly dissonant, multi-textured, peppered with surprise, and almost radical not only for the angularity of its time, but also for its underlying warmth.” - David Hajdu The New Republic

SON STEP
son step is four friends from the original Philadelphia.

more voices • little drums, big drums • electrics baby. • noise • more drums • little voices • no

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