San Francisco alternative rock band Abbot Kinney evokes the tuneful intelligence of 90's college radio. There’s a pareidolia, a significance, to every shape-shifted note, as though the band’s hooks and melodies were the soundtrack to a dream you had but can’t quite remember. Conceptually, the music - from the mind of lead singer Jared Swanson - has been described as Radiohead meets Jeff Buckley meets Muse. That is, Abbot Kinney has the same musical grit of those legendary artists, while preserving a professional polish and sheen. On the other hand, the lyrics leave the more somber and ironic tendencies of Generation X on the cutting room floor. While the songs have the melodic complexity and immediacy of the best of the 1990’s, the lyrics are like a distant letter sent from a more optimistic part of the listener’s subconscious: Where some bands wallow in self-pity, Abbot Kinney wants you to triumph over doubt.
The 2011 self-titled album, Abbot Kinney's debut, was mixed by Matty Green (Kanye West/Muse/TV On The Radio). The band has toured through SXSW, sold out The Troubadour in LA (like many of the artists that inspired them), opened for Youngblood Hawke at The Satellite and shared a month long residency with The Moth & The Flame at Silverlake Lounge.
They release their new single “Can We Become” - from their forthcoming EP - October 28th at San Francisco’s The Rickshaw Stop.
San Francisco alternative rock band Abbot Kinney evokes the tuneful intelligence of 90's college radio. There’s a pareidolia, a significance, to every shape-shifted note, as though the band’s hooks and melodies were the soundtrack to a dream you had but can’t quite remember. Conceptually, the music - from the mind of lead singer Jared Swanson - has been described as Radiohead meets Jeff Buckley meets Muse. That is, Abbot Kinney has the same musical grit of those legendary artists, while preserving a professional polish and sheen. On the other hand, the lyrics leave the more somber and ironic tendencies of Generation X on the cutting room floor. While the songs have the melodic complexity and immediacy of the best of the 1990’s, the lyrics are like a distant letter sent from a more optimistic part of the listener’s subconscious: Where some bands wallow in self-pity, Abbot Kinney wants you to triumph over doubt.
The 2011 self-titled album, Abbot Kinney's debut, was mixed by Matty Green (Kanye West/Muse/TV On The Radio). The band has toured through SXSW, sold out The Troubadour in LA (like many of the artists that inspired them), opened for Youngblood Hawke at The Satellite and shared a month long residency with The Moth & The Flame at Silverlake Lounge.
They release their new single “Can We Become” - from their forthcoming EP - October 28th at San Francisco’s The Rickshaw Stop.
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