Artist description This could be the future of pop music. Guaranteed to sound unlike anything else you have ever heard. Four years in the making, entirely written, played, recorded, and packaged by Jon Charles Newman - PLACEBO combines pop hooks, noise, samples, and orchestration into a multilayered musical experience. PLACEBO is cinematic in scope and by turns ironic, elegiac, humorous, and terrifying. Oh yeah, it also rocks. Miss it at your own peril.

Music Style twisted cabaret symphonic noise pop (well, YOU try coming up with a better description)

Musical Influences licking vodka off of a supermarket floor, tinnitus in tract houses, sex with cartoon characters, grey concrete and black velvet

Similar Artists Scott Walker, My Bloody Valentine, Syd Barrett, early Roxy Music, Wire, Laika, Moonshake, Amnesia, Kurt Weill, Merzbow, Nico

Artist History Who is JCN? A veteran of the California indie music scene for longer than he'd care to remember? A musical polyglot with a vast aesthetic ambition? That guy on the back cover? Does it matter? Why do you ask?

Group Members It's all about me me me me me

Instruments voice, sampler, guitar, bass, keyboards, programming, drums, harmonica

Albums Placebo, The sound of plastic & manure

Press Reviews "This is an amazing record - a coherent experience from first note to last, by a startlingly original artist." - Brian Edelman, Fever Blister fanzine * * * * * * * "We don't get it." - Rolling Stone

Location Tarzana, California - USA

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