Artist description Melody driven electronics meet fierce guitar in this galactic nectar. Somber lyrics, driving beats, and morphing melodies make Supra-Argo a ripe little pop duo.

Music Style Pop

Musical Influences OMD, Magnetic Fields, Elastica, The Wedding Present,Radiohead, Smiths, New Order, Cardigans, Electronic, Garbage

Similar Artists Electronic, Cardigans, Garbage, Curve

Artist History Supra-Argo was born in 1997 in beautiful Detroit. Their first release, Silveresque, hit in the fall of that same year, and recieved great feedback from press and radio. KXLU (L.A.) KSCU(Santa Clara) WPLT (detroit) WDET (detroit) The duo sold out of Silveresque, and are soon to release their latest self titled cd on Omega Point Records, featuring the best of Silveresque, as well as 4 songs of unreleased material. They currently reside in California, and have plans to record brand new material in the fall.

Group Members KAREN SANDVOSS (Mondo Mod/Happy Hour/Green Girl Records) -Programming,Drums,Vocals,Electronics ----------------------------------- COLLIN RAE(Slug/Matador and Ultra Vivid Scene/4AD, Columbia) -Guitar,Vocals,Keys.

Instruments Drums, Vocals, Guitar, Electronics

Albums Silveresque (TRG-1997), This Island...e.p. (never released)

Press Reviews METROTIMES Detroit, MI. November 1997 As a member of the label's bliss outfit, Ultra Vivid Scene, guitarist Collin Rae added grist and groove to the stock-in-trade UVS glam-ethereal sound. With LA noise outfit Slug, Rae wielded his guitar more like a flamethrower. Now with Supra Argo, Rae and drummer-vocalist Karen Sandvoss mix new wave pop instincts with post-punk battery acid sensibilities on the future-retro Silveresque, the duo's first release. With its spacey synth sounds, breathy vocals, twinkling keyboards and fuzz-saw guitar, Silveresque is futuristic new wave at its best and most contradictory, simultaneously icy and plush, detached but indulgent, the Thompson Twins stranded on MIR. The ballad "Crash My Car" says it all, Rae crooning like Gary Numan fronting the Cocteau Twins, all jagged imagery and blissed-out edges. "Headless Giant" takes a beat straight out of Trio's "Da Da Da" and shines it up with Sandvoss' space-shuttle stewardess vacals over sparkly guitars and a chorus replete with space-age synthesizer swooshes. Though its moonboots are planted firly in late-'80s proto-modern rock, Supra Argo's claim to genius here, even if by default, is that Siveresque sounds like everything without sounding like anything in particular. On Rae and Sandvoss' plane, Moogs and Marshalls co-exist in a wierd nethereworld, shrewdly naive to hip-o-meters of the dance floor and electronica. Silveresque is precious, gleaming pop that burns brightly from its distance and twinkles all the more because of it. Shine on you crazy diamonds, indeed. Brilliant. -- Hobey Echlin

Location San Francisco, CA - USA

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