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The Timeout Drawer
12+ albums
post-rockexperimentalinstrumentalpost rockchicago
about
The Timeout Drawer is upheaval. The Timeout Drawer is not a good time. A disheveled city band, having formed in 1999 on Chicago's north side while working day jobs painting basement floors in dirty ex-shampoo factories, the band has nothing to offer the light-hearted. It is for the melancholy that they parade, crystallizing the somber in spirit and exploding with them into triumphant and stomping riots of evocative beauty. But this is what you do when you've grown up in an overly-comfortable suburb: you feel the pain and invent the riot. The founding members of the band, Chris Eichenseer and Jason Goldberg, have done that most of their lives - from breakdancing together in the 5th grade to starting punk and metal bands in middle school, to spending most of high school in experimental bands with midi chains that could choke a baby elephant, noodling around before IDM and post-rock were properly coined. It was natural when their interests led them to the instrumental rock outfit they found themselves inventing in the summer of 1999 - The Timeout Drawer. At first, the band abandoned complexity in favor of minimalism: a moog, drum kit, and guitar. The first two releases, 1999's Record of Small Histories and 2001's A Difficult Future were explosive yet polite records, erupting rather softly into sparkling soundscapes of complex melodies and rich sound. The band began rigorously touring, and the records were lauded by critics for their emotional melodies and tight production.
top songs
1
I Fall So Far And I Fall So High
2,3782This Narrow Room Is World Enough
2,2693There Is So Much Love
2,2244Bursting With Tears, I Commit To Destroying You
2,1785Nothing Can Stop Me
1,9876Take A Look At Me Now
1,9387The Exorcist
1,5878Blue Eyed And Filled With Horror
1,5829What Looked Like Morning Was The Beginning Of Endless Night
1,57710Man Must Breathe
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