There has been a lot of 80s-fetishising pop of late, much of it excellent, but even in such grand company Selebrities stand out. (Source: Guardian)
Selebrities are Maria Usbeck, Jer Robert Paulin and Max Peterson, a three-piece from Florida via Buffalo and Brooklyn, and they sound like the xx playing faster disco-paced post-punk electronic pop music.
Jer was born in Buffalo and moved to Florida at age 11. He met Maria while attending art school in South Florida. They both had some similar and different tastes in music, but the 80′s era was something they could always agree on.
Around 2006 they started playing music together. It started as a side project for fun, recording music was very new for them. Those tracks sat on the computer for almost two years, until they decided to put them on Myspace to show friends, and got some pretty good responses from random people as well.
In 2009 they moved to New York, where Jer started working a retail job. Max was one of his co-workers, and was always playing amazing tracks through the speakers. When Jer found out it was Max his own music, he asked him to produce their stuff and sent him the myspace link. Max loved it and became the third member. Selebrities was born.
Debut EP Ladies Man Effect, released in November 2010, creates a world where dashingly voguish ‘summertime gothic’ electronic-pop mingles freely with the neon imagination of 1980’s New York. The EP is available as a free download from Cascine.
Selebrities @ Myspace, Facebook, Soundcloud, Twitter
Source: Addict Music, Cascine
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