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honestly one of the best bands of this decade. seriously no other band ever makes me feel the way that choir boy does(except maybe the cure), the lyrics combined with the vocals and the unique instruments create a sound that is uniquely choir boy. i can only see them getting better as they release new stuff (which they better soon 🫵🫵)
Favorite track: Blood Moon.
Since his recording debut as Choir Boy in 2016, Adam Klopp mined a sound swirls 1980s synth noir with captivating, cinematic songs sweeping with pensive sorrow and glowing hope. As a former member of the Mormon faith, Klopp spent his youth both in the pews of his place of worship, but also churning through DIY punk venues, before leaving the sect in the thick of a mission in Tahiti.
The duality of faith and fiction are central to the lush explorations on his debut album Passive With Desire. Recorded at Studio Studio Dada, the album’s tracks permuted as bedroom sketches, awash with camp, the sting of loss, and allusions to halcyon days of nocturnal, electronic driven pop. Retaining elements of Klopp’s original demos, Passive With Desire was recorded with a full band and polished with trumpet, strings, as well as archival samples calling back to Klopp’s hazy youth.
Engineered by Klopp, Bret Meisenbach, and Stephen Cope, Passive With Desire is the entry point to Choir Boy’s world of emotive wit, novella kissed lyricism, and bouncy, synth-forward takes on traditional song writing bound by the universal themes of loss, desire, evolution, and exploration.
credits
released October 28, 2016
All songs written and produced by Choir Boy
Adam Klopp- vocals, synthesizers, guitar, piano, percussion, and sequencing Katrina Marie Ricks Peterson- vocals
Bret Meisenbach- guitar
Jacob Hall- Drums
Kyle Hooper- keys
Chaz Costello- bass
Trumpet on “Sanitarium” by Stephen Cope
Strings on “Angel dog,” “Leave me be,” “Sanitarium,” “Passive with Desire,” and “Hellmouth” by Alyssa Pyper
Engineered by Adam Klopp and Bret Meisenbach at home and by Stephen Cope at Studio Studio Dada.
Mixed and mastered by Stephen Cope at Studio Studio Dada.
Photography by Alex Powelson Art/ Layout by Adam Klopp
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Never listened to their music until I saw their show at Grauzone in The Hague by accident. This music deeply touched my heart ! "Alive again, I don´t need to die tonight" ! CountBreznak
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