Corey Dargel

12+ albums

Electronic Art-Song

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Corey Dargel is a composer, lyricist, and singer of songs that "smartly and impishly blur the boundaries between contemporary classical idioms and pop" (New York Times). His gentle assault on the pop idiom creates a tension that pervades his music: Deadpan and detached vocals reveal heartbreaking intimacies, awkward and obtrusive drum patterns struggle against fragile harmonies, vocals and music uneasily opposing each other as songs stumble to their ends. Dargel has been called "an innovator both challenging and catchy" (Time Out New York) and "an ironic pop icon... dangerously close to commercial viability" (Village Voice). Salon praises his songs’ “rococo ingenuity” and “sustained bursts of lyrical brilliance,” and according to Gramophone, he has “a compositional sense guaranteed to keep close listeners on their toes. Words and music are truly equal partners....” Dargel’s critically acclaimed debut album, Less Famous Than You, is a collection of songs about falling in love with famous (or semi-famous) people. It was released on Use Your Teeth (London) in May 2006 and named one of the Top Ten Albums of 2006 by Time Out New York. His forthcoming album, Other People’s Love Songs, will feature the first fourteen custom-made love songs created through Dargel’s "Commission a Love Song" project, hailed by Toronto Globe and Mail’s Carl Wilson as “a neat, and profitable, rebuke to the self-expression model. Songwriters! Express other people's feelings!" Dargel has performed on bi