Artist description Instrumental Indie Rock

Music Style Beauty-oriented mathish indie rock w/jazz undertones

Musical Influences Bedhead, The Wedding Present, Ghazal, Swervedriver, Long Fin Killie

Similar Artists The Wedding Present, Swervedriver, Tse tse fly

Artist History Formed from the remains of Pittsburgh's Pedestrian Survival Jump, Whitford began in December 1998 as a three piece featuring Andrew Cuneo on Bass, Jesse Kates on Guitar and Jim Mulhearn on Drums. In December of 1999, Andrew Paradise joined on Saxophone. Adam Perry took over on Drums in October 2000.

Group Members Andrew Cuneo: Bass, Jesse Kates: Guitar, Adam Perry: Drums & Andrew Paradise: Saxophone

Instruments 12 and 6-string electric guitar, 8-string bass, drums, saxophone

Albums Orson Welles: Planet Devouring Robot

Press Reviews "Tighter than a gymnast's a$$" -- Zoe from Kitty Pryde and the Shadowcats // On ORSON_WELLS: "Whitford dances on the line where jazz and rock collide head on. It's like an album's worth of the moment before a storm, when everything is a pallid green and warm blasts of air are careening down and cold blasts of air are charging up. It all passes and leaves witnesses with a great sense of peace - everything is going to be all right. Listening to Andrew Paradise's saxophone here, it's not difficult to fall into that all-rightedness and want to stay there a while. But the grooves of Orson_Welles: Planet DevouringRobot, the group's debut, are not always so forgiving. While this is not a math rock album in the strictest sense, it's rooted in melody more than complicated time changes, it has an unmistakable math rock sensibility about it, and ebbs and flows and builds up and builds down the way any self-respecting math rock album should ... the stunning "Until He Comes Home," and the shimmering "Shine So Bright," offer a peek at the heights instrumental music in general and Whitford in particular can reach. As it stands, it's a promising debut. -- Steve May, IN PITTSBURGH

Additional Info Hula-hooping, skankin', enormous aluminum lazy susans, earth-shaking dissonance.

Location Pittsburgh, PA - USA

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