Artist description avant pop rock = darkly organic, transportive, intimate, raucous, moodshifting, delicate, emotional, electric, contemplative, noisy order, tribal beats, modal

Music Style Rock (Leftfield)

Musical Influences in no particular order: Jeff Buckley, Bjork, Radiohead, Rebecca Moore, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Tool, Sade, Rubberbullet, Dave Deporis, Jonny Rodgers, Tori Amos, Pierre Boulez, Debussy, Britten, Samuel Barber, Kurt Weill, Edith Piaf, Nina Simone, Miles Davis, Earl Harvin, Prince, Michael Jackson, DJ Shadow & our dads.

Similar Artists Bjork, Jeff Buckley, Radiohead, Tori Amos, PJ Harvey

Artist History AwRY formed in NYC in 1999 with singer/songsmith, Shara Worden at the helm. Worden studied opera in college & graduated with a taste for avant garde 20th century composers like Phillip Glass & George Crumb. She spent her weekends at the skate park working out coping tricks on ramps & somewhere on the move to NYC, the diva & the skater collided. She gathered noise guitarist, Shane Yarbrough & the inventive, Konrad Meissner on drums to form the band AwRY.

Group Members Shara: vocals/guitars - Shane Yarbrough: noise - Jonny Rodgers: bass - Konrad Meissner: drums

Instruments electric guitar noise, tribal drums, bass, soprano vocals - but sometimes toy pianos, xylophone, wurlitzer, strings

Albums AwRY Feb. 2001; Quiet B Sides Sept. 2001

Press Reviews New York’s Awry is a refreshing ode to the delight of nighttime. Bandleader Shara Worden has an incredible knack for crafting awe-inspiring folk/rock songs of intricate rhythm and lusciously dark melody. Aside the spacey guitar ambience of bandmate Shane Yarbrough, Worden invokes a primal understanding of emotion with her half-falsetto voice and gushing willingness to put it all on the table. Like a darkly organic Portishead, Awry’s music is like staring at your pond reflection on a lonely and moonlit night. Beauty like this doesn’t come around very often. – Eric Elbogen, Digital City New York

Location New York, New York - USA

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