Annuals
Singer/songwriter Adam Baker, guitarist Kenny Florence, bassist Mike Robinson, guitarist Zack Oden, pianist Anna Spence, and drummer Nick Radford create the orchestrated, expansive indie rock of North Carolina's Annuals. Hailing from Raleigh, three of the band's members -- Baker, Florence, and Robinson -- began playing together in various bands during childhood. With the addition of Oden, Spence, and Radford, the musical collective was properly born in 2004. Annuals' spunky energy drew influence from the likes of Mike Patton, {$Bria...[more]
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Nineteen year-old Adam Baker, a kid from rural Apex, NC with a faultless ear and a potent desire to create unheard-of sounds, is the architect of Annuals. Under Adam's stewardship, Annuals transform pop paradigms into sweeping, luxuriant sonic landscapes while remaining faithful to a wholehearted emotional core. Carefully layering each song with a thousand noises and feelings, Annuals camouflage the deep simplicity of what they do, belying their youth with deftness & complexity.
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Co-produced and engineered by Jacquire King (Modest Mouse, Kings of Leon), the Wet Zoo EP represents the first new batch of Annuals songs to be recorded since Be He Me. The three songs featured here will surely whet the appetites of their fans while the band continues to work with Jacquire on their follow-up album. Wet Zoo also showcases two songs from Annuals project Sunfold, which is part of the sprawling Terpsikhore art collective that gave rise to Annuals and features all six membe [ read more ]
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Raleigh, North Carolina-based six-piece Annuals' sophomore album, Such Fun was co-produced by Annuals frontman Adam Baker and producer Jacquire King (Modest Mouse, Tom Waits), who also produced the band's recently released Wet Zoo EP. Recorded throughout North Carolina, Such Fun is an album so varied and exciting, it certainly belies the years of its young creator and his musical cohorts. Such Fun embraces a vast landscape of musical richness, combining Adam's accomplished son [ read more ]
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Nineteen year-old Adam Baker, a kid from rural Apex, NC with a faultless ear and a potent desire to create unheard-of sounds, is the architect of Annuals. Under Adam's stewardship, Annuals transform pop paradigms into sweeping, luxuriant sonic landscapes while remaining faithful to a wholehearted emotional core. Carefully layering each song with a thousand noises and feelings, Annuals camouflage the deep simplicity of what they do, belying their youth with deftness & complexity.
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