if you haven't heard of them yet, you best start listening. Pomplamoose is an indie youtube band from san fransisco comprised of talented artists Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn. they joined forces in 2008 to create the band and started pumping out covers of popular songs on youtube. their philosophy is essentially, what you see is what you get. the two play every instrument themselves and create all the vocals including harmonies out of recording of their own voices. no lipsyncing. their music videos on youtube, however, are what really set them a part from other artists. each video is cleverly constructed to show every single instrument and every single voice you hear on the track. it truely is amazing the sound they are able to create out of so very little. their popularity continues to grow as they have recently been featured on several Hyundai commercials singing popular christmas carols. because they create and mix all the sounds themselves, their music is incredubly organic and underprocessed which makes it truely special to listen to.
You will like them if you like: Regina Spektor, Feist, (honestly they are so incredibly unique i challenge you to find more artists very similar to them)
Why they are important: they prove that truely special music does not need to be created in a massive studio and over proccessed to the point of oblivian (such as music's sad recent obsession with autotune). their music is true and honest and interesting. they take popular music and show how it can be completely deconstructed to its base elements making each interpretation completely unique.
Songs to listen to: "Nature Boy" (Nat King Cole cover), "La Vie en Rose" (Edith Piaf cover), "If you think you need" (Pomplamoose original), "Makin' Out" (Mark Owen cover), "Jungle Animal" (Pomplamoose original, compliation with Allee Willis)
- J
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