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My Autumn's Done Come
4+ albums
oregonportland
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My Autumn's Done Come's new album Paper Flowers is without a doubt a Portland record. From sound to subject, the band's first full-length chronicles a story all too familiar to many a Portlander; life in a new city and the struggle of artistic creation. In 2010 Andrew Hanna, and fraternal rhythm section Garrett and Tyler Brown all found themselves relatively new in Portland and bandless. They soon formed as a three piece, taking a stylistic cue from Garrett Brown and Hanna's recently defunct scraggly pop band, Last Trains. MADC soon recruited long time friends, singer Lilly Maher and guitar player Andrew Lorish, to expand the sound. All relocated from Eugene, four-fifths MADC's members have played together since high-school. The band takes its name from a haunting song by Lee Hazelwood, a seminal Nashville singer and producer whose unique productions and arrangements created his esoteric and idiosyncratic style. This allusion illustrates the core of the band's philosophy and the depth of the band's influences: from folk to soul, jazz to modern indie and pop, the band seeks to solidify singer Andrew Hanna's songwriting within the tower of American song while fomenting the band's own referential and pastiche elements. After three months of struggling to find their sound, MADC recorded and self-released a four-song EP. Six months later they began working on a full-length. Paper Flowers was recorded and self-produced over the summer 2011 at Secret Society Studios with engineer J
