Garrett Pierce released his first full length album, 'Like A Moth' (Crossbill Records) in early 2006. His work has been has been regarded as literary and haunting with minimal arrangements and a voice that soars over pages of lyrics. There is no doubt that the Lost Generation artists and writers influenced his structure, a style of free-formed imagery that springs between the bleak and optimistic. Musically, the songs often begin with the light strumming of an acoustic guitar, developing itself into a lush piece with the addition of electric guitars, strings, and horns.

Born in Burbank, California, Garrett remembers the same playgrounds of malls and the desperate escapes from normality that Tim Burton recalls of his suburban upbringing. And though he grew up playing in rock groups, he constantly wrote in a similar style to those found in his father's records - the sixties/seventies singer-songwriters.

What holds his music apart from other acoustic-based musicians of this times is his blend of the darkness and the light. He's not interested in rehashing the psychedelic flower power that stems from his current San Francisco home. He's more interested with the journey of the mythological story, the song that first entered the consciousness and has been passed down from the early languages and met its peak in the Greek verses.

Garrett was most certainly meant to be a writer of songs. His original instincts were to create, and at thirteen, his first guitar gave him his first melodies. Now, over a decade later, he's written music in the hills of Echo Park, the flatlands of Davis, the jungle-beaches of Puerto Rico, and in the fall he'll be busy working on his next album in the lands that birthed those great mythological stories - Italy, and Greece.

Over the last year Garrett has embarked on three tours, including one with seminal songwriter Diane Cluck. He's played many of S.F.'s great venues including The Great American Music hall, and collaborated with the some of the bay area's most respected musicians. Independent radio stations on the west coast (KEXP, KUSF, KDVS) and in Europe have kept his album on heavy rotation.

"Like A Moth" was recorded in five seperate locations from studios to hall closets in San Francsico and Davis, California. Matt Bauer, Jolie Holland, Safa Shokrai (The Drift), Jake Mann (Zim-Zims), Payam Bavafa (Sholi) all leant their talents to the making of the album.