To Play Northside Festival
Confetti Out Now On Mush Records / Look Out For Summer EP
US Tour Dates
6.18 - Northside Festival - Brooklyn, NY (SATURDAY)
**Coco 66 at 10:30PM
7.10 - West Fest - Chicago, IL
7.28 - The Ladies Literary Club - Grand Rapids, MI
7.29 - Club Garibaldi's - Milwaukee, WI
"From end to end, Dennis delivers a tireless performance: he darts, he dives, he dips, he sprinkles syllables in fizzy staccato and/or he smears them across a song in breathy fashion" - Pitchfork
"remarkably light, the layers and layers (and layers) of sounds, mostly rhythms, flitting and fluttering like confetti itself." - Chicago Sun Times
"Think about every time you’ve wanted to immerse yourself in the sheer energy and force of an album, now take a look at Confetti and give yourself an experience." - The Line of Best Fit
"their sound exists in-between pop and experimental, digital and physical, cold and warm, less so straddling these opposites than valuing the cracks created by them." - Windy City Rock
"blended with beautifully crafted songwriting, the result is a sound that is as unique as it is memorable." - In Your Speakers
"the album is a roller coaster of sound and rhythm. It’s a remarkable feat." - Popstache
"while their tracks are anchored in pulsating beats and repetition of hypnotic riffs, you can never second guess what direction A Lull are going to veer off in ultimately, so you’re constantly left reeling, dazed and bewitched in equal measures." - This Is Fake DIY
Chicago’s A Lull is nearly impossible to describe without qualifiers. Equal parts mystical and primal, the music crafted by these five multi-instrumentalists gathers the recognizable traits of a half dozen indie micro-genres, tosses out all but the stem cells, then adds the calculated, percussive verve of a half dozen rhythm sections on top of beautifully crafted songwriting to result in a sound that is as unique as it is memorable.
The history of A Lull begins in 2008 when the break-up of Nigel Evan Dennis and Todd Miller’s former bands, setting them free to create a new style of music together. After luring Mike Brown back home from Boston, they began dedicating themselves to their distinctive brand of sound-collage and songwriting. Soon Ashwin Deepankar and Aaron Vincel added their musical voices to the mix and the line-up was complete. With each member of the band being fascinated by drums and percussion, their sound quickly solidified as something impossible to characterize.
A Lull blurs the lines between the synthesized and organic. The evocative lyrics and vocals of Nigel Evan Dennis are engulfed with music elements that live on the barriers between guitars, electronics, and effects, then covered with endless layers of drums and percussion. The band has been defining this sound for three years. Their 2009 EP, Ice Cream Bones was the first display of their quasi-folk, electronic leanings, but their latest work brings all of that promise to fruition. After countless hours in practice spaces, basements and bedrooms, A Lull has recorded over seventy-five songs and partial song ideas in the process of creating their full-length debut, Confetti. Recording the music themselves, the band was not confined to traditional studio techniques or time constraints, and the obsessive attention to detail shows.
Employing anything available to create beats, melodies, textures and layers of sound, A Lull’s sonic landscape is experimental in the ways that it takes form, yet at the same time inherently musical.
http://www.myspace.com/alullmusic
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