Thousands Play Rockwood Music Hall

After a successful SXSW, Bella Union prepares to release Seattle duo Thousands' debut The Sound of Everything. The band will make their first East Coast appearance with a run of dates including New York, Boston and Philadelphia. Please see list of dates below.

The Sound of Everything, out in the U.S. on April 26, is enjoying high praise in the U.K including a four star review in Q Magazine. At home in Seattle, The Stranger says Thousands has "elements that coalesce into a sweet sound that evolks Kings of Convenience and Simon and Garfunkel, albeit with welcome ragged tones" while Seattle Weekly calls the bands' live performance "seamless, balanced and beautiful."

Kristian Garrard and Luke Berman, who make up Thousands, did not retreat to a studio to create The Sound of Everything. They set up recording equipment in abandoned barns, forgotten silos, stairwells and state parks in the Pacific Northwest to achieve an organic sound. No Engineers, no advice.

The duo experimented in an old cemetery with only instruments and Garrards' handheld digital recorder. They quickly realized they had set the intimate tone in which to create their album and began traveling to quiet and inspiring places to record. Thousands sought to incorporate the sound of barking dogs, crows flying nearby and wind rustling through the leaves into their songs. In turn, the band took extreme efforts to keep out the sounds of humankind. The duo also recorded each song live with just one take. Each track is in real time. There is also no post-production on the entire album. The goal of The Sound of Everything is to have the listener feel they are sitting right on front of the band as they perform while birds fly by, leaves fall and the great outdoors enhances the sound. Beyond that, it's an album that should truly come to life when listened to on headphones. "This is how we were used to hearing ourselves," says Kristian, "and we could project a decent balance of instruments and voice."

The first track and the first song of their experiment "MTSES III" was recorded in a cabin along the Oregon Coast. The songs "We Don't Tell," "Big Black Road," "Everything Turned Upside Down," "Must Be Born Again" and "Love Won't Come" were recorded in a littered silo of questionable structural durability with almost eight inches of snow. "Sun Cuz" was recorded in a nearby barn. In the background of "Everything Turned Upside Down," one can hear nearby white water rafters picnicking and hitting rocks on the barn roof."

THOUANDS TOUR DATES

April 27 /// Rockwood Music Hall /// New York, NY
April 29 /// Crocodile /// Seattle, WA