"The music is lush, dense, full of ridiculous time signatures and even more ridiculous instrumental melodies, plucked delicately and looped infinitely. It's a mathy sound reminiscent of the Mercury Program, Maserati, Tortoise and others, with the main (and most impressive) difference being that this band is a duo. Yeah, duo. Kristian Dunn (rockin' a kick ass double-neck bass/guitar combo) and Tim Fogarty (busting out the mathy cross rhythms of three drummers) manage to play music as intricately layered a...   [ read more ]

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"A sort of Silverlake-style Sigur Ros, the L.A. duo makes experimental instrumental music that's both highly skilled and deeply felt. The duo's compositions take on an incredible musical and emotional complexity." Spin "El Ten Eleven's dense, textured instrumentals recall post-rock standard-bearers like Tortoise or the Mercury Program, except theirs are created by only two musicians - and a whole lot of effects pedals." LA Times

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An instrumental duo consisting of a bassist and a drummer, El Ten Eleven are groove-oriented post-rockers in the Chicago style; their self-titled debut album sounds like Tortoise stripped down to essentials, or a much less tortured Godspeed You Black Emperor! minus the drones. Bassist Kristian Dunn manages an impressive amount of tonal variety in his playing, and almost never devolves into fusion-style overplaying to try to fill in the relatively minimal sound. (There are occasional hints of...   [ read more ]

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