Lungfish
| Lungfish | |
|---|---|
 Daniel Higgs (2008) |
|
| General information | |
| origin | Baltimore (USA) |
| Genre (s) | Post-hardcore |
| founding | 1987 |
| Founding members | |
singing |
Daniel Higgs |
guitar |
Asa Osborne |
bass |
John Chriest (1987-1994) |
Drums |
Mitchell Feldstein |
| Current occupation | |
singing |
Daniel Higgs |
guitar |
Asa Osborne |
bass |
Sean Meadows (1995–1997, since 2003) |
Drums |
Mitchell W. Feldstein |
| former members | |
bass |
Nathan Bell (1997-2003) |
Lungfish is a post-hardcore band from Baltimore , USA , that has existed since 1987.
history
The band was founded in 1987. Singer Higgs and guitarist Osborne had previously played together in the hardcore band Reptile House . The quartet was completed by bassist John Chriest and drummer Mitchell Feldstein. Except for the post of bassist, the band's line-up remained stable.
In 1993 Lungfish completed an eight-week European tour. In 1995 the band founded their own record label, Walker Records, which it only brought to four releases.
The band never split up, but has not released any records since 2005 and no longer performs. In 2012 her label Dischord Records , on which all of her albums except the first appeared, released a compilation of previously unreleased tracks and recordings.
Singer Daniel Higgs publishes solo albums at irregular intervals, sings for the experimental rock band Skull Defekts, works in Baltimore as a tattoo artist and published a volume of poetry in 1996. Together with his wife, the Japanese photographer Fumie Ishii, he plays in the band Fountainsun.
Guitarist Asa Osborne has played mainly with the Swedish singer Hanna Olivegren as the Duo Zomes and works as a DJ since 2008. Bassist Sean Meadows has played with indie rock bands June of 44, The Sonora Pine and HiM since the beginning of Lungfish's hiatus. Drummer Mitchell Feldstein has published two volumes of poetry with independent publishers. Former bassist Nathan Bell recorded a total of eight solo albums in the 2000s and 2010s.
Style and reception
The Baltimore weekly City Paper describes Lungfish as "one of the city's most revered bands" and points out that they are the only significant band on Dischord Records that are not from Washington. The magazine identified the music of Lungfish as based on the music of The Fall , expanded to include the over-used stylistic element of repetition. The Chicago- based Pitchfork magazine also highlighted the repetition style in Lungfish's music and found the band "embodied the innovative spirit of the post-hardcore era". At the beginning of their career the band had a "rock-oriented proto-grunge sound", but abandoned this in favor of a style called "Cosmic Groove" by Pitchfork editor Jason Heller, which incorporates the repetitive structures of krautrock and hallucinatory lyrics the clearly defined post-hardcore mindset. For Allmusic , Ron DePasquale called Lungfish an " emo band" and their music as "highly intense and minimalist but complex". The Dangerous Minds magazine described the band's music in a retrospective as "repetitive, meditative and cosmic". A typical song of the band dispenses with typical rock elements such as a refrain or a bridge , but only consists of a cyclical guitar riff, over which the "imposing, bearded, shaman-like" Daniel Higgs puts his "lysergic declamations", which "look like biblical passages" sound.
Discography
- 1990: Necklace of Heads (Simple Machines)
- 1992: Talking Songs for Walking ( Dischord Records )
- 1993: Rainbows from Atoms (Dischord)
- 1994: Pass and Stow (Dischord)
- 1996: Sound in Time (Dischord)
- 1997: Indivisible (Dischord)
- 1998: Artificial Horizon (Dischord)
- 1999: The Unanimous Hour (Dischord)
- 2000: Necrophones (Dischord)
- 2003: Love is Love (Dischord)
- 2005: Feral Hymns (Dischord)
- 2012: ACR 1999 (compilation, Dischord)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ DisasterAmnesiac.Blogspot.de: 1999 Lungfish Interviews - Introductions and Daniel Higgs portion. Retrieved June 23, 2017 .
- ^ Discogs.com: Walker Records. Retrieved June 22, 2017 .
- ↑ Jens Uthoff: US posthardcore artist Daniel Higgs: The flow of a shaman . In: The daily newspaper: taz . July 24, 2018, ISSN 0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed July 26, 2018]).
- ↑ CityPaper.com: Listen to Beauty Pill's cover of classic Lungfish track 'Ann The Word'. Retrieved June 22, 2017 .
- ↑ CityPaper.com: Asa Osborne teams with Swedish singer on lush, eclectic new Zomes album. Retrieved June 22, 2017 .
- ^ Pitchfork.com: Lungfish: Sound in Time. Retrieved June 22, 2017 .
- ↑ Allmusic.com: Lungfish Biography. Retrieved June 22, 2017 .
- ^ DangerousMinds.net: The Cosmic Post-Hardcore of Lungfish. Retrieved June 23, 2017 .