Chairs In The Arno created File Folder, by incorporating a collage of electronic paints by way of a microKorg, Moogs, and an MC 505 Groovebox. The result is eight songs of antique synth pop, full of light and refreshing hooks, aided and abetted by guy/girl vocal exchanges. Although the feeling soon subsides as the song takes on its own identity, opener "I Never Loved You Anyways," initiates with a keyboard riff which sounds like a twist on Gary Numan's "Cars." "Suit Pressed" is a bright & shiny pop number lead by Becca Hsu's soft but [...]
Approach Influenza as a series which serves to help give insight as to where music is born; these are the thoughts, influences and the inspirations directly from the mind of the artists. Here Chairs in the Arno guitarist Ryan Fly expands on "Input Delay," a song featuring a rare vocal contribution from him on the band's recent File Folder . The song is just as much about finding and losing love as it has to do with the ills of loss in our age of digital cataloging. Not to call it lost love, but if you've ever [...]
Approach Influenza as a series which serves to help give insight as to where music is born; these are the thoughts, influences and the inspirations directly from the mind of the artist. Here Chairs in the Arno singer Jeff Excell discusses the spirit which brought the band to begin recording music and recalls the inspiration and events leading up to the song "Popsicle," one of the many from the recent release File Folder. On "Popsicle" : Pissed off that most of our favorite bands had broken up, (Figurine, Barcelona, The Rentals), me, Ryan [...]
Chairs in the Arno's debut, File Folder , is strikingly smooth in comparison to the band's electronic-driven rock counterparts, focusing on casual lyrics and vocal harmonies rather than attempting to struggle towards making each track 2004-chic or danceable. The eight song set serves as a short-playing scrapbook of stories and inside jokes amongst the band, each track helping to distinguish the its members as a group of playful youth slightly past their youthful years. The band's name itself directly coming from a drunken night of college-aged shenanigans while on a European trip together, one night concluding in [...]
Approach Influenza as a series which serves to help give insight as to where music is born; these are the thoughts, influences and the inspirations directly from the mind of the artist. In this, the second of two parts featuring music from the Saint Helena based electronic quartet Chairs in the Arno, bassist Jeffrey Knight discusses how skateboarding lead to inspiration on the band's recent album File Folder. On "Winter Song": Jeff (Excel) and I were on our way to the Fairfield skate park when we decided to work on lyrics for an otherwise complete [...]
Approach Influenza as a series which serves to help give insight as to where music is born; these are the thoughts, influences and the inspirations directly from the mind of the artist. In this, the first of two parts featuring music from the Saint Helena based electronic quartet Chairs in the Arno, bassist Jeffrey Knight discusses the inspiration and theme for "Size Thirty," an upbeat, unique love story from the group's recent release File Folder . On "Size Thirty" : Jeff (Excel) had a good melody in his head but asked [...]
Band members Jeff Excell, Jeff Knight, and Ryan Fly tossed their plastic chairs into the Arno river in a fit of drunken exuberance while studying abroad in Italy. While celebrating their noble deed, they came up with a name for their band: Chairs In the Arno . Definitely a Kodak moment. After returning to their homeland, the trio recruited Becca Hsu to share vocal duties as well as tickling the keys of a moog synthesizer. In this final form, the band put together their debut album, titled File Folder , which came out in [...]
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