Artist description Funtastic!

Music Style Electronic/Guitar Pop

Musical Influences Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra, Komeda, Pavement, Tom Waits, The Dust Brothers, Quasi, The Velvet Underground, Stereolab, My Bloody Valentine

Similar Artists The Beta Band, Cornelius, Land Of The Loops, New Bad Things, Solex, Kitty Craft, Sukia, Magnetic Fields, Cornershop, 13th Floor Elevators.

Group Members ** David French-Voice, Sampler, Guitar, Keyboards, Toys and Gadgets. ** Jacob Fulkerson - Voice, Guitar ** Lars Holmstrom - Drums, Trumpet ** Luke Hollywood - Bass

Albums 1993 - The Various Decorative Examples of Wallpaper (Union Pole) ***** 1993-Slow Love Songs About Drugs and Horsies(Union Pole) ***** 1995 - Domestic Landscape Activities (Union Pole) ***** 1996 - Magic Static Treats (Blackbean and Placenta) ***** 1999 - Honing The Spectacular (Blackbean and Placenta) ***** 2000 - Man! (Freewheel)

Press Reviews Wallpaper is a side-project for members of New Bad Things, a band whose low-fi and utterly casual approach to bashing pop tunes is a pretty wonderful thing. Wallpaper has the same dimly recorded feel and loose melodicism, but applies them in a much more low-key environment -- New Bad Things' tinny grooves and reckless pop enthusiasm are traded for a sound that's less organic, more oddly constructed, and entirely appealing.- ALL MUSIC GUIDE ************ DOMESTIC LANDSCAPE ACTIVITIES - "Domestic Landscape Activities"Sounds like it was recorded by Brian Wilson underwater and it has me by the ears.It's all I can listen to.The guitars hum,the tapes hum,the sounds of the instruments expand and contract from crystalline percussion to over driven rubberband guitars. They are my favorite band in Portland." - SNIPEHUNT MAGAZINE *********** MAGIC STATIC TREATS - "Wallpaper are a pop band.They may sink their catchy hooks under a blanket of lofi tinnyness, and send their vocals through a warbled trip filter, But the songs come out the other side unscathed by psychedelia.The most memorable tracks are "Hi Roller", which seems to salute a score from some early-'80s action show and "Caravan" a plainly pretty underwater adventure until an uncharacteristic pop punk guitar scatch down pops up to throw us off.This is all part of the enjoyment of Magic Static Treats:Being repeatedly surprised by musical invention within a pop framework. - PUNCTURE MAGAZINE

Location Portland, Oregon - USA

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