MORE HUMANS

AGENT:  MATTHEW

AVAILABILITY: SEE AVAILS / UPCOMING SHOWS

TOOLS: MAKE AN OFFER / PROMO MATERIALS

BAND SITES:  OFFICIAL BAND WEBSITE / FACEBOOK PAGE

FREE MP3: Everything Changes Into Itself

HOMETOWN:  Washington, DC

DISCOGRAPHY:

2009 - BARBARBO CD EP/DOWNLOAD

2005 – WELCOME TO THE CHILDHOOD HOME OF

ANDY WARHOL AND DAN MARINO CD

2004 – THE CIGARETTE BASEMENT CD EP

BIO:

More Humans is a DC-based trio whose sound is equal parts angular guitar play and arresting three-part vocal harmonies, the latter described by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as "haunting."  Consisting of three high school friends, their music has an intimate quality that comes only from years of playing music with each other, talking for hours about art, and coming of age together.  Though they were weaned on D.C. post-punk, More Humans are as much informed by the melodic sensibility of 60's folk and the playfulness of 70's New Wave as they are by the Dischord catalog.

Previously based in Pittsburgh, they released Welcome to the Childhood Home of Andy Warhol and Dan Marino in 2005, an LP that enjoyed undistilled adulation from local radio and press.  Following its release, the band embarked on a national tour that took them from D.C. to San Francisco and back.  In addition to Welcome to the Childhood Home of Andy Warhol and Dan Marino, More Humans has produced an astonishing series of homemade EPs, including 2009’s gorgeous Barbaro.

The band will enter the studio late summer 2010 to begin work on a sophomore LP with Chad Clark (The Dismemberment Plan, Lungfish, Beauty Pill).

REVIEWS:

Massive pop hooks, harmonies as odd as vintage XTC, whisper-to-scream dynamics, crushing guitars, and... haunting vocals.

-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Their anthem "Welcome to the Childhood Home of Andy Warhol and Dan Marino" kills, in a kinda Big Star way.

-Pittsburgh City Paper

When (More Humans) hit their mark, the results are undeniably sharp... they have an impressive ability to borrow liberally from the early '70s rock bands like Ten Years After and '90s grunge warriors... "Cigarette Basement" packs a series of potent shifts from NYC no-wave pop harmony to Cobain growls.  After the band audits these rock staples... they hit us with the title track's acoustic prog-rock brilliance. Here, (they) are operating on all cylinders - firing off psychedelic guitar work, rich vocal harmonies, absurdly vast dynamics and lyrics just ridiculous enough to match the music's inherent nuttiness... it's really fucking great when a band isn't afraid to be ridiculous and ambitious.  It sure beats the alternative.

-Splendid

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