Labradford
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Labradford is a post-rock band from Richmond, Virginia.
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[edit] Biography
Labradford consists of bassist Robert Donne, guitarist/vocalist Mark Nelson, and Carter Brown on keyboards. Their music style is experimental ambient/post-rock, although their earlier releases as Prazision and A Stable Reference were much more related to very dark, droning rock. They make use of electronics as well as non-traditional arrangement and production techniques to create soundtrack-like, effects-heavy landscapes, which ties them closely with bands like Experimental Audio Research, Flying Saucer Attack and Gastr del Sol.
The trio has released material on indie music labels such as Merge Records and Kranky Records as well as the Kiwi rock label Flying Nun. The group's music mostly drifts on the guitar effects and the keyboard passages, with the vocals in the background.
In 1999 they started a tour with Godspeed You! Black Emperor and their Festival Of Drifting series, which featured appearances from Pole, Matmos and Papa M as well.
Though the group has not officially disbanded, they have not released another album since 2001's critically acclaimed Fixed::Context, and the band members have apparently moved away from their former base of Richmond, Virginia. Robert Donne has joined the slow-core group Spokane. Mark Nelson continues to release records on Kranky Records under the name Pan American
[edit] Discography
[edit] Full albums
- Prazision (1994)
- A Stable Reference (1995)
- Labradford (1996)
- Mi Media Naranja (1997)
- E Luxo So (1999)
- Fixed::Context (2001)
[edit] Other releases
- Julius/Columna de la Independencia 7" ep (1994?)
- The Kahanek Incident, Vol. 3 (1997)
[edit] See also
- Cul-de-sac
- Bowery Electric
- Pluramon
- Pan American
