Mellowdrone

小簡介
主唱松散又柔軟的聲音，似乎是Chris Martin和Damon的合體。有一次和一個朋友聊天，他說好的音樂很多，但是有一些是冷的，比如說potishead，有一些則是一聽就能罩住很多人的，比如說coldplay。第一次聽到mellowdrone的時候我覺得它應該是靠后者的，應該是能籠絡很多人的，只是遺憾制作和錄音起到了減分的作用。新的專輯，封面是一個赤裸的女人，她站在紅色的幕布前，用雙手抱住自己，黑色的凌亂頭發(fā)遮住了面容。
by Marisa Brown
Though the Venezuelan-born, Miami-bred guitarist and lead singer of Mellowdrone, Jonathan Bates, had been playing the instrument since a child, it wasn't until he got to Berklee School of Music that he realized he was simply a technically proficient guitar player, and didn't actually know much about music. At age 20, and a year before graduating, Bates left Boston and moved to Los Angeles to begin seriously composing and recording his own music. His 2003 self-released EPs, A Demonstration of Intellectual Property and Go Get 'Em Tiger, the latter recorded with Tony DeMatteo on guitar, Scott Ellis on drums, and Greg Griffith on bass, caught the attention of former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr, who invited Bates, under the name Mellowdrone, to open for him during his upcoming tour. When Bates had finished playing with Marr, Tony DeMatteo rejoined Mellowdrone, and after a hectic touring schedule with bands like the Killers, Elbow, and Secret Machines, the group signed to 3 Records/Red Ink in 2005. Their first full-length album, Box, came out the following year.