| estereo began in the fall of 2000 in the sleepy state of Louisiana, as the brooding, bedroom recording project of Skip Allums in Baton Rouge. After playing much of the South Eastern circuit, and releasing an EP on The Awareness Program, Allums relocated to sunny Northern California in 2002. Estereo has since become more permanent, and more fully realized as a dark, minimalist indie pop outfit, with slow & simple songs for grey days... Estereo has toured much of the South East and West Coast, opening for indie acts like Mates of State, Songs Ohia, Damien Jurado, Jonathan Richman, The Album Leaf, OneLineDrawing, and Barbara Manning. Estereo released a weird and wonderful full length album, i always get what i want, as well as its supplemental live EP on The Awareness Program in the summer of 2003. The band released a new album in December 2004, My Favorite Name ... and will tour the West Coast throughout 2005. |
| contact: Skip Allums i_am_estereo@hotmail.com |
| press: "... quiet, spacious and melancholy as the sound of dripping rainwater." - San Francisco Bay Gaurdian "The music is quiet and reflective -- steeped in a sleepily atmospheric, lonesome quality." - Rachel Leibrock, The Sacramento Bee (read more) "... softly spoken, tunesworthy lo-fi indie rock. Lightly strumming his guitar. the songs were complemented by the rain dropping buckets outside. it was like being serenaded by a good friend who's willing to let you inside his neurotic mind." - Playinginfog.com, Estereo live at the Make Out Room "Louisiana transplant Skip Allums' band ESTEREO has become one of the area's finer low-fi pop delights..." - Jackson Griffith, Sacramento News & Review (read more) "... Allums' voice tempers any looming cheer with its whispery essence of discomfort. Elsewhere, Writing Directions an eerie predatory tale of love, loss and longing that, sung in a raspy desperate howl, sounds disturbing lonely." - (from a review of A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy) Alive and Kicking, "good boy/girl harmonies, and beneath the distressing introspection are some rather bouncy pop tunes." - The Synthesis "The Canopy Club, dead quiet, sulked to his heart-felt music of loss. The keyboard, a gloomy midi-drenched creator of organ music, and his clean-toned guitar worked beautifully behind his words... bold and brave, Estereo posed a nice, diverse change..." - The Illini Buzz |
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