Artist Info
Genre : Electronica/Trip Hop/Experimental | |
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About This Act : |
EVERYBODY LOVES IRENE was born in 1998. It all started with a band named Gooton, consisting Yudhi Arfani (guitar), Dimas Anindityo (bass), and Mulyadi Triharsono (drum) when they were only in junior high school! All three grew to become friends in the same scene that popped up several britpops gigs, popular in Jakarta at that time. However, the band went without permanent vocalist. After some time, in 2001 the boys met Irene Yohanna, a girl with remarkable voice. Her voice trully made a break. All the boys loved it. Even more, everybody loves Irene! This in fact is the exact sentence that became the name of the band EVERYBODY LOVES IRENE. She soon became the main icon of this band.
With spare-backing tracks and emotional yet wrenching vocal, EVERYBODY LOVES IRENE play music for times when ecstasy wears off and the tingle becomes a chill. It’s a dance noir for those too world-weary to move. Their music quality got even more enriched when Aulia Naratama (synthetizer) joined the band. This is the last, perfect and solid format for the band to produce new, great songs like Memento Mori, Gravity Always Win, Try Try Try, The Lullaby Show, and the list goes on. EVERYBODY LOVES IRENE’s music might sound like seen as a really unhappy world. On its creative process, it admits that it is mostly inspired by some talented musicians like Emiliana Torrini, Goldfrapp, Air, Mono, Sneaker Pimps, Portishead, Anjali, Radiohead, Cocteau Twins, Sigur Ros, The Smiths, Bloc Party, and some other great musicians that cannot be mentioned one by one. This would make them an eclectic indie-pop band with lot of organic trip-hop influences that touches a view element of multi-layered electronica sounds. It will reveal such dark ambience when these young acts is started to perform their non-standard songwriting. EVERYBODY LOVES IRENE has created lunatic fans among the music lovers, regarding the quantity of presenting themselves in some international events that they have participated, such as Baybeats International Festival 2007 in Singapore. Among these times, EVERYBODY LOVES IRENE has already released their first album entitled The Very First Thing You Must Learn About Flying Is Gravity as their first musical journey in late 2006 and their second album in mid 2008 On Second Thought, I Might Wanna Change Some Things which attract fans not only from Indonesia but also from the neighboring countries and even Europe. The fact that they are gaining more popularities has attracted attention from the International Music Television: Channel [V] which featured them in their TV show about indie bands in asia: AMP Around Asia. EVERYBODY LOVES IRENE has also participated in some local and international compilation album, including international acknowledgement on compilation album"Electro Zone - Volume 1" release on France, "Alila Independent Selection Vol. 1" release on iTunes and "Half Dreaming: Asia Shoegaze Compilation" release in Japan & USA and also a nation-wide movie original soundtrack entitled Gerbang13 and a TV serial titled Dunia Tanpa Koma (DTK). Another thing that we can say is that if you’re making out at home or pining home alone, EVERYBODY LOVES IRENE is the most appropriate one to leisure. |