Artist description four piece. thousand oaks, ca

Music Style Rock and Roll

Musical Influences Radiohead, Proudentall, Casket Lottery

Artist History 2000

Group Members JD Knotts - Guitar and Vocals Tim Wilson - Bass Guitar Marc Rickenbach - Drums

Instruments Guitars, Bass, Drums, Piano, Slide Guitar, Xylaphone, Kaoss

Albums self titled CDep,

Press Reviews Status Magazine # 19 I've been playing air-drums to this during my shifts at the infoshop for the last few weeks, and noticed people bobbing their heads while browsing the shelves -- people who in some cases are complete snobs about music. So, I'm going to venture a guess and say that this is better than 95% of what you've bought in the last 6 months. With the increasing presence of a small cadre of "indie" artists regularly getting their knobs polished by the mainstream music media, those who can best mimic them, have more or less monopolized the indierock "discourse", as it were. And that's a real shame. Because we all know perfectly well that when we first started going to shows, our excitement was largely a knowing anticipation that some random, unkown band who'd been beating out songs in their basement was going to knock us on our ass. And now those are the bands who can't get a tour booked, can't get any support, and ultimately wind up abandoning music, because everyone's busy getting down to the flavor of the month. Enter Respira. The best band you've never heard (unless you happen to live in SoCal). Giving nods to bands like Waxwing, Knapsack, and even a little 70's classic rock here and there, they've managed to put together an album of songs so well-crafted, so beautiful, and at the same time so catchy that you wonder where the hell they came from. And all of this just in time for their high-school graduation. Lyrically, I can't imagine anyone more adequately capturing the despair one senses when talking to young people growing up in SoCal. The entire album seems to be decrying the addictions, self-hatred, tunnel vision, and neglect that we all either witnessed, or personally wrestled with in those years of our lives (and which SoCal seems to cultivate with staggering efficiency). What's more is the way these songs approach them with all the compassion, maturity, sophistication, and hope that escape some of us, even with ten years of hindsight. Exotic Fever scored big time on this one. Best thing I got to review this issue, hands down. KS

Location Thousand Oaks, California - USA

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