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 had played at The Rebel
Lounge on 26 March,
to perform a show on
T he band’s fans
expressed their
dismay. “So sad to
the BBC Music In-
troducing new artists
platform. In LIPA’s
of the biggest things
out of Liverpool.
They were just such
the following evening in wake up to this news. 2019 alumni news- lovely boys with so
Santa Ana, California,
Loved these two, rest letter, Head of Music much ahead of them.”
some 350 miles (560
easy,” one fan wrote Martin Isherwood Fans of the band paid
km) away, as part of
a 19-date second tour on Twitter. Another remembered Ste- tribute with an event
of North America. At wrote: “Such awful, phen, who was 24 and in Her’s honour at
the time of the crash, awful news. Always 25-year old Audun Liverpool’s Bombed
the Arizona Depart- put on a great show as, “just the funniest, Out Church. Two
ment of Public Safety and could tell how sweetest, loveliest, months on from the
was already respond- much they loved most creative lads you tragedy, a night of DJ
ing to reports of the this music and each sets, an exhibition by
Nissan pick-up truck other. All the love to official band pho-
travelling at speed in you all.” Fitzpatrick tographers; a pres-
the wrong direction
came from the town entation of the band’s
going eastbound on
of Barrow-in-Furness artwork, and exclusive
the westbound car-
riageway. A requiem in the north of Eng- video screenings took
mass for Fitzpatrick land, according to his place at St Luke’s,
was held at St. Mary’s Facebook account, while fans worldwide
Church, Barrow-in-Fur- while Laading was were encouraged to
ness, on 23 April 2019, from Kristiansand, hold parties of their
followed by a burial on the south coast of own to remember the
H er’s were an indie
rock band from
Liverpool, England,
2019 in a road traffic
collision in Arizona,
while on tour in the
at Barrow-in-Furness
cemetery. Heist or Hit’s
Norway. The duo met
while studying at the can ever meet. They
duo. This year marks
three years since the
management said they Liverpool Institute for were just so down to tragic death of Her’s
composed of Stephen United States. On 27 were “heartbroken” at
“
Performing earth.” band members Ste-
Fitzpatrick and Audun March 2019, around 1 the news. “Their ener- Nobody knows
Laading. The band’s a.m., Fitzpatrick and Arts. They phen Fitzpatrick and
gy, vibrancy and talent what I see He add-
debut full-length LP Laading along with their came to define our gained Audun Laading, along
Everyone thinks ed: “The
Invitation to Her’s was tour manager, Trevor label. As humans, they recognition with their manager
im crazy songs are
released in August 2018, Engelbrektson from were warm, gentle and after being Trevor Engelbrektson.
following the compila- Minneapolis, were killed Crazy for you, oh just great
hilarious,” the label said named as They are sadly missed
tion LP Songs of Her’s
which had been released
in a head-on traffic col-
lision and subsequent
in a statement posted
on its Facebook page. It
“ones to
watch” by
”
boy
and we all
thought
and we wish they
were still with us here
in May 2017. The duo vehicle fire. They were described Her’s musical the Guard- that they today. Rest easy lads.
were killed in the early travelling from Phoenix, talent as “astonishing”. were going to be one
ian and featuring on
hours of 27 March Arizona, where they
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 Mac TV
Demarco Girl
C ombining a goof-
ball public perso-
na with a distinctive T V Girl is a Los
Angeles-based
songwriting style and American band con-
production sound, sisting of Brad Peter-
Canadian artist Mac ing, Jason Wyman,
DeMarco rose to the and Wyatt Harmon.
higher reaches of The band describes
indie fame unexpect- their music as indie
edly quickly. While jazz, ‘70s soft rock, getting older, this time pop and something built from samples of described TV Girl’s
his image projected and glam into the with upgraded pro- “you can sing along everything from Dy- ballad “If You Want
a charmingly laid- vanguard realm, sell- duction, a trend that to, but wouldn’t sing lan to Tracy Chapman It” as “balmy and
ing tens of thousands continued on 2019’s
back slacker prone to
occasional antics and of copies and chang- Here Comes the Cow-
around your par-
ents”. TV Girl’s Todd
to, as Petering puts
it, “some obscure
“ I remem-
inviting,
despite its
never taking anything ing the shape of what boy, which he released Rundgren sampling ber seeing
1960s garage rock narrative
too seriously, his was happening in on his own imprint. song “If You Want It” it and doing
song” downloaded about a
songs have ironical- indie rock at the time. DeMarco announced gained traction on the a double
haphazardly off drunk-
Subsequent moves that his next album
ly often hid mature
themes like aging, to New York and Los would be on his own
internet and became
popular enough for
the internet. Their take
eponymous four-
” en love
interest’s
commitment, and Angeles each yielded imprint, Mac’s Record Warner Music Group song EP TV Girl was sloppy evening.” They
morals under layers quality releases on Label. His inaugural to take notice and released via the mu- called TV Girl’s use of
of chorus and reverb. which the multi-in- release and fourth take it down. V Girl’s sic-sharing site called a sample lifted from
Early releases on Cap- strumentalist DeMar- proper album, Here unique poppy chill- Bandcamp. In late the once-popular
tured Tracks and end- co became known for Comes the Cowboy, wave-ish sound comes 2010, a song from the “Hello It’s Me,” Todd
less touring enlarged playing and recording appeared in May 2019 from the combination EP “If You Want It” Rundgren’s 1973 hit,
DeMarco’s fan base, all of the parts him- and was followed by of Ngo’s sweet voice earned a spotlight on “ballsy.”
and the 2014 album self. His 2017 album lengthy tours of North and subtly twisted the Pitchfork website’s
Salad Days pushed his This Old Dog again America and Europe. lyrics over Petering’s Forkcast column. The
strange mix of slacker explored themes of lushly arranged beats, reviewers at pitchfork
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