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Airports.
12+ albums
emo5432funrockpopPhiladelphia
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Airports. was a project based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 2008 - 2009. Not much is known about them other than a quote from Karan Sunjay Rampall (DJ "The Brekky Shift" On WKDU 91.7fm) along with the members listed on their bandcamp. "Introducing Evan Bernard, Peter Martin, two childhood friends who, together create music in the city of paternal affection. Along the road, they teamed up with Greg, Nick & Kaytee who reflect the current lineup. Their synth based songs are lined with textured keyboard playing, vocal harmonies, sparkly melodies, timpani's and horns all over the place willy nilly. Like Schrödinger's cat, Airports exist inside and outside different musical territories… yet all of them at the same time. Ambient-Pop-Punk anyone? Other bands still recovering from art school and aping the no-wavers would call this post-modern. However, the magnetic Airports duo create music in a straightforward manner, lacking the pomp and high-mindedness that afflict the circuit of experimental indie bands recording today. Evan, Greg, Kaytee, Nick, and Peter create music for the pure joy of it, where their indie experimentalist contemporaries would burp and bemoan their obscure artistic endeavors with aerobic-chic American Apparel sweatbands to match. In contrast, these Airports kids don't sweat the the b.s.; they are sincere and capable. Airports's naturalistic tendencies set them apart from the typical indie fare fans have come to accept as the norm: loud, "new", edgy, proto-
