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Une seule cassette à leur actif en 2005, The Golden Hours dont les cinq titres sonnent comme une pop lo-fi charmeuse, raconte avec optimisme des histoires de mort et de désespoir.... 100 copies réalisées.
April 12, 2006 - The Golden Hours is made up of long-time friends Raf Spielman, Eliza Sohn and Brian Yoder. The band met in high school, when Spielman and Yoder were in the same German class and Sohn played co-ed soccer with Spielman.
Yoder and Sohn started the group shortly after graduating from high school. Spielman joined first as a "guest musician," later sticking around for good. Their first cassette tape was recorded and mixed to 4-track in less than a day, using a "no-name brand computer microphone." Their first show was at Voodoo Doughnuts in Portland, Ore., a doughnut shop featuring Portland's "Smallest and Tallest Stage," which is about ten feet off the ground, above the bathroom.
Shortly after playing on the tiny, vertigo-inducing stage, The Golden Hours teamed up with Los Angeles' small, experimental Not Not Fun Records. Not Not Fun specializes in handcrafted, carefully decorated small-run releases. The Golden Hours released 100 glow-in-the-dark copies of their "mini-album," The Mystery and Her Crew, which sold out quickly. While Not Not Fun's reputation is centered on the L.A. noise scene, The Golden Hours play dreamily quaint pop songs.
With Sohn and Yoder living in Portland and Spielman studying in Providence, R.I., the individual Golden Hours write songs in their respective homes and plan on putting them to use when the band is together in Portland this summer.
NPR
