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Artist
former friend
12+ albums
twee poptweecuteindie popmusical genius mark reid
about
"Like" former friend on Facebook & stay in the loop: http://www.facebook.com/formerfriend Listen to former friend music on Bandcamp, which has a simpler interface: http://formerfriend.bandcamp.com -- Simple version: Just a couple of geeks attempting to create their own indie pop maaagic. -- Way-too-wordy version: former friend is Mark Reid and Liana Ahn. Based in Orange County, California, former friend is an accidental band that first began in the year 2000. What started out as playing mostly indie covers eventually led to writing original songs and exploring their own sound. In the summer of 2001, Mark and Liana decided to record a couple of their original songs, which turned into – oops – an entire album, which turned out to be – oops – a rather long and arduous task, but a great learning experience. Oh, and fun too, right? A diverse collection of sounds entitled Unexpectations was released in early 2002. So, then what? Since the creation of the so-called band, Mark and Liana had been consumed with an ongoing exploration of flowery shit that sounds good. They achieved a subtle encounter with their collective musical ideals in their first effort, Unexpectations, but the satisfaction of the album was brief, because they both felt that the material did not convey their full potential, nor did it adequately express the band's creative aspirations. So Mark and Liana began writing and recording new songs with a fresher, more conscious outlook. They took more risks with the
