Exitmusic
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Exitmusic is a dream pop/indie rock band created by actress and singer Aleksa Palladino and Devon Church. The couple formed the band in 2003 when they married in Los Angeles.
History
Exitmusic, the Brooklyn-based duo of Aleksa Palladino and Devon Church, crafts dream pop that is as emotional as it is ethereal. Palladino, also an actress starring as bohemian mob wife Angela Darmody on HBO’s Roaring Twenties drama Boardwalk Empire, began writing songs in her early teens, a few years before beginning her professional acting career. Raised in an artistic family—including her opera singer mother and painter grandparents—Palladino experimented with her four-track recorder, creating layered arrangements that evoked atmospheric acts such as Portishead, Radiohead, and Sigur Rós. Meanwhile, Church developed his singing and songwriting with little more than an acoustic guitar. The pair met when Church moved to New York after spending a year teaching English in India and Taiwan, and soon began writing and recording together. They spent a year learning recording software and experimenting with sounds before playing shows; their first set of songs, The Decline of the West, was self-released in 2008, the same year Church and Palladino married. The pair moved to Los Angeles to further Palladino's acting career, but returned to New York in 2009 after she landed the Boardwalk Empire role. Exitmusic's lineup expanded to include drummer Dru Prentiss and electronic musician Nicholas Shelestak for live shows, including the tour with Phantogram they embarked upon in October 2011, which coincided with the release of their Secretly Canadian EP From Silence. The group's debut album, Passage, which expanded on From Silence's moody feel, arrived in May 2012.
Discography
The Decline Of The West, an EP, is their first release; it has 8 tracks.
- The Following Wings
- Strike Anywhere
- The Decline of the West
- Slow Parade
- Everybody Row
- The Father's Estate
- Here's Sunset
- Exit Music
From Silence EP the band's second release
- The Sea
- The Modern Age
- The Hours
- The Silence
Passage their last album
- Passage
- The Night
- The City
- White Noise
- Storms
- The Wanting
- Stars
- The Modern Age
- The Cold
- Sparks of Light
Contributions
Exitmusic helped to make the album We Were So Turned On: A Tribute to David Bowie by recording Bowie's song Space Oddity.[1]
References
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