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The Early Hours
12+ albums
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about
There is a more than one band named "The Early Hours": 1. NYC pop band 2. Garage rock band from Perth. Australia 1.) Twisting together the sounds of new wave, hip-hop, and indie rock, The Early Hours make genre-bending music from NYC. Naturally, calling it “pop” music can be misleading given the bastardizing of that term to include studio-fabricated, profit driving Disney characters. But in so much as the word is indicative of creative & infectious fun, be it early Beck, the Cars, or those four lads from Liverpool, TEH are a pop band. The Early Hours began with one Eric James in an otherwise non-descript week of February 2008. As a teenager, James had become immersed in painting, photography, and especially music, the later landing him in NYC in 2007. After a briefly unproductive production stint, James sought to clear his head with something fresh and reflexive to the cityscape around him. Writing and recording one track per day, the resulting songs spoke from the indefinable moment before the events of the past are fully processed and the race of the new day is yet to begin. The result was the poignantly off-the-cuff A Week & A Day EP in March 2008 which, led by standout track “Saturday” (a.k.a “Backseat Lovers”), began accumulating over 100k MySpace plays. But the more Eric wrote, the more a clear problem arose: the beats were getting too big for laptop drum loops to handle. This was going to require someone with some serious percussive chops; cue close friend a
