FOUR FIFTY ONE ARE:
Drew Robinson: Lead Vox/Keys/Guitar
Yanni Gianaros: Drums
Chris Frazier: Lead Guitar
Marquis Hudson: Bass
Four Fifty One delivers a melodic punch as jarring as a jab from Ali and as distorted as Picasso's bent on reality. Indie rock with 60s infused melodies and hooks. Biting guitars with pointed lyrics and affecting vocals...
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FOUR FIFTY ONE ARE:
Drew Robinson: Lead Vox/Keys/Guitar
Yanni Gianaros: Drums
Chris Frazier: Lead Guitar
Marquis Hudson: Bass
Four Fifty One delivers a melodic punch as jarring as a jab from Ali and as distorted as Picasso's bent on reality. Indie rock with 60s infused melodies and hooks. Biting guitars with pointed lyrics and affecting vocals. British invasion meets California surf rock, jumps in a time machine and floors it. Drew Robinson's vocal style and on-stage persona is both creatively and sonically captivating, if not Jagger-esque. Yanni Gianarros together with guitarist Chris Frazier and bassist Marquis Hudson lay down Motownish licks and grooves that stick in the heads of even the most discerning music critics.
The Maryland based band are hesitant to define their influences, though their playlists range from Wilson Pickett, to The Doors, and Strokes on one day, to the Velvet Underground, Joy Division or The Shins the next. Comparisons aside, in this digital age the good thing about having such a broad range of music for young bands to consume, is that upstarts like Four Fifty One are able to have a style that is still totally one of a kind. Wanna talk style; the four piece is a 70’s indie garage spiked with a retro-80’s nu’ rock kind of concoction filled out with smart and pointed lyrics ranging from topics like wronged lovers on Socks and Shoes to caricatures of image obsessed girls who spend too much time in tanning beds on Orange Shell Breakdown.
•Produced by Adam Moseley (The Cure, Nikka Costa, John Cale) at Dust Brothers' Boat Studio, Silverlake, CA
•Debut TV peformance in CW Network's "Veronica Mars'" set to debut October 3rd on the CW Network.
•2006 CMJ/Zig Zag Live Grand Prize Winner
•The band recently completed on a 15 city Eastern US tour.
•College/Specialty Radio: Adam Lewis, Planetary Group
Album Credits:
Produced, Engineered and Mixed by Adam Moseley
Additional Production and Keys by Steve Van Dam
Additional Engineering by Scott Spelbring
Recording Assistant: Jai Moseley
Recorded at Dragonfly Studios, Haymarket, VA
Mixed at The Boat Studio, Silverlake, CA
Mastering by Robert Hadley at The Mastering Lab, Hollywood, CA
Mophonics Records 200 Westminster Ave, Venice CA 90291
www.myspace/com/fourfiftyone
www.fourfiftyoneband.com
www.sonicbids.com/fourfiftyone
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