Artist description With his new CD FAILURE, Herb Heinz has set out to fail. If he does fail he will succeed at failing, meaning he will not have failed, but if he succeeds, he will also not have failed, having failed at failing.The manifestation of this paradox can be heard on FAILURE—a neurotic journey through the mind of a troubled artist. Combining dark vocal melodies, meandering lyrics, synthesized backdrops, abrupt shifting textures, strange sounds, and psychotic guitar, FAILURE challenges, surprises, and confounds listeners while providing plenty of hooks, just in case.

Music Style Avant-rock, Progressive, Weird

Musical Influences Strange Pop Music, Progressive Rock, Musical Theatre

Similar Artists King Crimson, Gentle Giant, David Bowie, Fred Frith, Devo, Cardiacs, Wire, Kenny G.

Artist History Herb is known in the San Francisco Bay Area as guitarist with the avant-cabaret art-rock band Amy X Neuburg & Men. He also plays with the notorious improv band Hmmm... and in his spare time he produces and performs in enormous multimedia extravaganzas.

Group Members Besides Herb, FAILURE includes contributions from Amy X Neuburg on voice and Joel Davel on drum pads and percussion.

Instruments Herb sings and plays guitar, bass and synths.

Albums FAILURE

Press Reviews FAILURE has met significant critical acclaim. The San Francisco Bay Guardian described it as "a triumph of paranoid electronic pop for fans of prog rock, Frank Zappa and Eraserhead," while Keyboard Magazine thought that "FAILUE clearly succeeds." See Herb's reviews page for specifics: http://www.isproductions.com/herb/failure.read.shtml

Additional Info Don't be greedy.

Location Oakland, CA - USA

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