The Montgolfier Brothers
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The Montgolfier Brothers is a British indie pop
-dream pop
duo which features gnac
's Mark Tranmer and Lovewood drummer Roger Quigley
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The group, which formed in 1999, has released several recordings.
Indie pop
Indie pop is a genre of alternative rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the mid 1980s, with its roots in the Scottish post-punk bands on the Postcard Records label in the early '80s, such as Orange Juice, Josef K and Aztec Camera, and the dominant UK independent band of the mid...
-dream pop
Dream pop
Dream pop is a subgenre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom in the mid-1980s, when bands like The Passions, Dif Juz, Lowlife and A.R. Kane began fusing post-punk and ethereal experiments with bittersweet pop melodies into dreamy, sensual soundscapes. The term was almost...
duo which features gnac
Gnac
gnac is a pseudonym used by songwriter and music producer Mark Tranmer. The name is derived from a short story by Italo Calvino in Marcovaldo entitled Luna e GNAC ....
's Mark Tranmer and Lovewood drummer Roger Quigley
Roger Quigley
Roger Patrick Martin Quigley is a singer/songwriter and one-half of the indie pop duo known as The Montgolfier Brothers....
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The group, which formed in 1999, has released several recordings.
Discography
- Seventeen StarsSeventeen StarsSeventeen Stars was the debut recording from The Montgolfier Brothers. It was released in 1999 on the Vespertine label before the company folded...
(1999) - The World Is FlatThe World Is Flat (album)The World Is Flat is the second album by The Montgolfier Brothers. It was released in 2002 on the Poptones imprint.-Track listing:#"2:55" – 2:47#"The Understudy" – 2:46#"Be Selfish" – 7:42#"The World Is Flat" – 5:09#"The Second Takes Forever" – 2:50...
(2002) - All My Bad ThoughtsAll My Bad ThoughtsAll My Bad Thoughts was the third LP from The Montgolfier Brothers. It was released through the Vespertine and Son label in 2005.-Track listing:#"The First Rumours of Spring" – 3:58#"Don't Get Upset If I..." – 2:32#"All My Bad Thoughts" – 4:01...
(2005)
External links
- Official site
- The Montgolfier Brothers on MySpaceMySpaceMyspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....
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