Artist description Three-piece (bass/guitar/drums) group with male/female vocals. Drums are played with brushes and the guitar is acoustic. The music is soft and slow but not droning.

Music Style Indie-pop / softcore

Artist History Por Avion started in 1997 as the teacups. We released a few things with kindercore records and then changed our name and left the label. Since then we've been re-inventing ourselves and looking forward to releasing something new on motorcoat records.

Group Members aaron, melissa and stephen

Instruments Guitar: yamaha acoustic fitted with a pickup played through a fender twin II. Bass: fender jazz bass played through a boss overdrive pedal and into a peavey 112. Drums: ludwig rocker with zildjian rock series cymbals

Press Reviews I love this disc. It's brilliant in a pure, youthful, unspoiled way that only the best pop bands can pull off convincingly. Mixing the gentle intensity of emo-core with a Television Personalities-style sense of nonspecific nostagia, the Teacups spin quietly blurry tunes of simplistic longing and uncomplicated pleasures. The music is fairly sparse and the vocals are of the untrained, speaking/singing variety -- this is a no-studio-trickery, what-you-hear-it-what-you-get sort of recording. So what is it that ranks the Teacups so much higher than the legions of other bands treading the indie pop trail? Scale. These kids (they're all younger than me, so I can say that) don't hold tight to the three-minute-limit, song-wise; several tunes clock in beyond the five minute mark, and aren't simply lengthened by a half-dozen extra choruses but rather are towering epics of unfettered joy. "Tie My Shoe", which cranks through a series of peaks and valleys before finally coalescing in a shimmering conclusion, is an excellent example -- kind of like a Spinanes song sans angst and agenda. "She Doesn't Like My Glasses" is a jangly slow dance, the sort of innocently affectionate song that's written by people who haven't lost their virginity yet, and it ends in a cymbal-crashing blur of glory. this will come back to haunt you is the sort of title that inspires critics to trite play-on-words conclusions, but it this case they're true -- you won't quickly forget this disc, nor should you. -George Zahora (Splendid E-zine)

Location Racine, Wisconsin - USA

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