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The Parallelograms are an electronic pop duo from Los Angeles. Mainly employing analog synths and layered harmony vocals, they produce a lush and shimmering - but sometimes chaotic - blitz of bliss. Their "psynth-pop" sound is influenced by 60s psychedelia, 70s space disco, 80s electro, 90s shoegaze, and also gains inspiration from cult cinema and literature.
Though primarily electronic, no computers are used in the recording of the duo's music. They balance the precision of drum machines and sequencers with hand-played and random elements. Environmental, acoustic, and subliminal sounds are incorporated into the mix with an aim to evoke moods and invoke sonic spirits.
The Parallelograms independently released their debut album "Adult Contemporary" in 2006 and recently debuted their current long-player "Stratospheric Dreams" on limited edition vinyl and CD. Furthering and advancing their melodic, dreamy and hazy electronic sound, the release features sharper production, more densely layered instrumentation, and deeper employment of Curt Boettcher-influenced harmony vocals than their often minimal debut.
The cover art by renowned Los Angeles artist John Luke Eastman provides a visual analog to the duo's sound. His work is noted for its gorgeous color palette and a sense of weightlessness and spatial fluidity, the very same qualities the Parallelograms strive to express in sound. Eastman has described his art's "beautiful distortion" as existing in a "fifth dimension" and the band used this notion as the blueprint for the self-contained sonic world of "Stratospheric Dreams."
For Nick Jr.'s YO GABBA GABBA, the pair recorded a minimalist cover of the Free Design's "Kites Are Fun." They have also done several remixes for the show.
They have received airplay from KCRW, KXLU, and college radio stations and webcasts worldwide. They have performed at disparate locations across Los Angeles.
The Parallelograms are Stefanie King and Chris Curtis, musically aided and abetted on "Stratospheric Dreams" by L.A. indie luminaries Spencer Dunham (the Allah-lahs), acclaimed thereminist/artist/filmmaker Kevin Sukho Lee, and Jessica Espeleta (Neverever, Mark Burgess, Sky Ferreira).
"An ultramodern sound that propels listeners into the future by way of the past. A technological analog of '60's psychedelia - but with definite hooks and tangible melodies."
The Onion A.V. Club
"Retro pull with future push...the band practices their brand of electro-pop like it's accelerated math science."
L.A. Alternative
"It is the band's quirky mix of standard instruments with heavily synthesized ones - like ring modulator and theremin - that raise Adult Contemporary above its contemporaries...leaves listeners flying high."
Performer
"The Bonnie and Clyde of electronic pop."
Campus Circle
