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Kind Eyes by Vow. Propulsive and tuneful dark pop from this LA band, available on black or opaque maroon vinyl. Boom Biddy Boom by Freschard.
Ridiculously cute fanciful French folk. Dare you to resist the charm of the boom-biddy-boom singalong. In Silver Halides by Lowpines. HiLo by Jack Stauber. Alek Fleischer hits a wider variety of sounds than pop food. Dead weight in particular sounds like a baby from Gorrilaz and Bowie. Despite that it has a sound of it's own that I'm glad I could find Favorite track: Purchasable with gift card. Jack Micheal Antonoff born March 31, [1] is an American singer, musician, songwriter and record producer.
He was previously the lead singer of the band Steel Train. Antonoff has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award and has won three Grammy Awards , two of which were for his involvement in Fun, and ones for production on Taylor Swift 's album He also started his own music festival, Shadow of The City , which takes place annually in New Jersey. During his sophomore year of high school, he and several friends from elementary school formed a punk rock band called Outline [8] in November They released a self-titled EP through a friend's record label in January Antonoff initially sang in the group until early when Eddie Wright took over on vocals.
During the tour, Outline played in venues such as anarchist bookstores, while the oldest member of the band drove because he was 18 years old. Antonoff explained in The band then convinced two of their friends from the band Random Task, Evan Winiker and Matthew Goldman, to drop out of college to join the new band.
The new band released its debut album, Aim and Ignite , in Bareilles said to Billboard: The first day we sat down together was the day we wrote 'Brave. The music video for the song was viewed 1. The song was written in Antonoff's New York City apartment after he and Swift shared a love of a particular snare drum sound from a Fine Young Cannibals song.
They brainstormed ideas by email before starting the songwriting process. Antonoff played Brian May 's guitar during the rehearsal, which he described as the "most surreal experience ever. Fun Live in the USA. Antonoff announced a solo project called Bleachers in February The Huffington Post published a positive review of Bleachers' first single, " I Wanna Get Better "—released on February 18—calling it the "catchiest song of ," [24] while Time proclaimed, "[Bleachers] is more fun than Fun.
I wanted to bridge the gap between Disclosure and Arcade Fire—something both streamlined and organic The production and songwriting is extremely over-the-top, extremely epic and unapologetic. The record is all about finding a world where you can be kind to yourself in. Antonoff explained to Rolling Stone that, while the song might sound joyous, "it's very desperate" and, like many of the other songs on the album is about loss. Antonoff worked with producers John Hill and Vince Clarke on the Bleachers studio album, as he sought to create "massive, beautiful pop songs that sound fuckin' cool.
Alternative charts during the same week. In regard to Strange Desire , Antonoff said:. It doesn't have to be one or the other You don't have to [make] big pop songs that sound stupid and you don't have to make these fuckin' apologetic, tired droney songs that sound incredible.
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I really wanted both things to happen. After Swift first heard the track, she asked Antonoff if she could develop the idea further, and it eventually became an album track after both songwriters were satisfied with Swift's work. Antonoff released Bleachers' sophomore album Gone Now on June 2, In Antonoff also co-wrote and produced Lorde 's Melodrama which was released in June. USAToday described it as "the best pop album of so far". He also was a key contributor to her Reputation album.
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In , Antonoff produced the soundtrack for the 20th Century Fox romantic comedy-drama film Love, Simon. Bleachers also contributed four songs. On working on the ground-breaking film, the first major studio picture to focus on a gay teenager, Antonoff said "I believe Love, Simon is pivotal, a major step for a new generation" and added that he was "honored" that "genius" director Greg Berlanti asked him to work on the soundtrack. Antonoff has earned three Grammys out of nine nominations. The Satellite Awards are annual awards given by the International Press Academy that are commonly noted in entertainment industry journals and blogs.
When Antonoff first moved out of the family home near the end of , he lived with his sister, Rachel, on the Upper West Side of New York City three blocks north his cousin Andrew Xenos.
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Shortly afterward, he relocated to Brooklyn Heights to live with Lena Dunham , whom he was dating at the time. It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me in the eye and been like, "It's the greatest thing that's ever happened. I think it's biological. I'm not that young, right? I'm not, like, 24 or I'm no longer in the phase of my life where I talk about everything as in the future.
Like, I'm in the future. Antonoff has spoken publicly about his struggles with depression , anxiety and obsessive—compulsive disorder. He claims that hearing of others' battles with depression made him feel "not better, but not alone" and "way less scared. He has germophobia which was exacerbated by a bout of pneumonia that he suffered in while recording a studio album for his band Fun.
His pulmonologist prescribed a daily run, but he explained that he hates it "more than anything" because it is "one of the most truly boring experiences on Earth. I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball I want it to be music.
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So to get away from music, I do other music. If I'm producing someone's song or writing with someone else, then doing a Bleachers song or a Fun song is an escape and it keeps me creative and it keeps me locked into what I want to do. If something's making me crazy, I need to go somewhere else and I don't want that thing to be yoga. Antonoff was once in a relationship with American actress Scarlett Johansson , his classmate at the Professional Children's School.
In , Antonoff started his own music festival called Shadow of the City. Shadow of the City is a one-day festival with only one stage, making it different from other music festivals. Money from each ticket sold is donated to The Ally Coalition , an organization founded by Antonoff and his sister Rachel.