Album Notes

"For the sonically adventurous, or anybody sick of predictability and cookie-cutter boredom, Less the Band is what you have been longing for." - www.whisperinandhollerin.com

With no front man, Less is a collaboration of five professional New York City artists where the music stands in the center. As gnome-like tinkers they crack open the circuitry of the emblematic android of modern culture and with a post-punk scalpel and space-rock suture attempt to graft the tin man a heart. Some of them have been on TV or in films and you might say "oh, that guy", you may have picked up a book or two by one (one is banned by the Pennsylvania school system), or seen another play with other world famous bands. Here their work is to bring harmony and dynamics to 3 guitars, bass, drums, effects, and a chorus of vocals coming from a spectrum of influences, colliding in the center. Straying toward the satisfying riff yet detesting sugar they invoke the sensation of a person on a diet being tempted by desert, binging then purging.

"They're bluesy like Captain Beefheart, with all kinds of weird barking vocals that play like percussion, and a Sonic Youth sense of noise parameters. 'Cord on Rat', a disjointed paranoid fantasy a la Radiohead or Pink Floyd (lyrically), jumps with the unbounded energy of a child first discovering open spaces. 'I Don't Know You Now' does the Flaming Lips (just for, like, 30 seconds) better than the Flaming Lips do." - Louisville Eccentric Observer

Born out of necessity in Fall of '04 (for the portrayal of a rock band in an Off-Broadway play) and thriving to maturity on their creative work ethic, Less has surpassed their origin playing venues throughout the country and the world with bands such as My Morning Jacket, Red Romance, Richard Swift, Arizona, Nervous Cabaret, Dawn Landes, Amps II Eleven, etc. In spring of '06 they released their first full length "Bear" recorded at Soma Studios in Chicago with Tim Iseler, (engineer for Tortoise, Wilco, Rachels), and then in New York with engineer Kevin Meeker (Dr. John, Liz Phair), which has since been receiving radio play across the country. They collaborated with artist Danica Novgorodoff on the graphic novel "A Late Freeze" based on the characters and story appearing in their music which became winner of the 2006 Isotope Award. Then in the summer of '06 the play which birthed Less, "Finer Noble Gases", was resurrected thru the life of the band and became the dark horse hit of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival winning numerous awards and accolades.

Their pace isn't slowing with a second album mastered and awaiting release, songs from both albums appearing in upcoming film soundtracks, and an animated music short of "A Late Freeze" in the works. Less are also founding contributors of "Motherlodge".