In the studio: Dave Fischoff. On the stage: Dave Fischoff - guitar & vocals, Matt Hallock - bass, Chris Kolodziej - drums & laptop, Sharon Shattuck - viola.
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Dave's new album, The Crawl, is currently streaming for free, in it's entirety, at his website. Want to hear it for yourself? Right this way, please:
http://davefischoff.com/Music
HERE'S THE BRAND NEW VIDEO FOR "SMALL DRIFTS" DIRECTED BY SEAN U'REN:
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You can DOWNLOAD DAVE FISCHOFF’S THE CRAWL FROM EMUSIC (click here) or ITUNES.
You can LISTEN TO DAVE FISCHOFF'S THE CRAWL IN ITS ENTIRETY at http://davefischoff.com/Music (click here).
Dave Fischoff's The Crawl is the product of a single creative
mind. Armed with a rather large arsenal of obscure samples culled from any sound he could get his hands on, Dave went to work. Alone in a near downtown basement
apartment (sometimes in his bedroom closet), his mind took a very
long trip, delving into the under-explored territory where electronic
music, hip hop, and orchestral pop meet. Taking cues from The Beach
Boys and Burt Bacharach to Boards of Canada and Public Enemy, Dave
Fischoff has conceived, collected, cut and pasted, orchestrated and
created a piece of work that is large and complex yet utterly
personal and easily accessible.
HERE’S WHAT SOME CRITICS HAVE SAID ABOUT DAVE FISCHOFF’S THE CRAWL:
"Indie solo acts tossing around electronica samples can seem like a dime a dozen, but thankfully, Chicago's Dave Fischoff reels in a fresh catch on The Crawl. Fischoff fashions a hefty musical composite, drawing upon the likes of the Beach Boys and Burt Bacharach, whose bouncy '60s pop sounds fuel Fischoff's imagination into fluttering melodies. Add a splash of some of the Postal Service's chunkier electronica elements, and you've found yourself in Fischoff's whimsical world."
-SPIN.COM
"Fischoff wields a hefty sack of sounds to construct his tightly packed, electronic pop songs..including the entire Chicago Public Library sound collection. The Crawl is ecstatic in its density; on each song, Fischoff revels in just how much sound he can cram in without sacrificing clarity or the simple joys of a sugar-coated melody…Though he channels Bjork, Brian Wilson, the Polyphonic Spree, and even Public Enemy, often within a single composition, such as opener "The World Gets Smaller When You Dream", Fischoff's songs are intensely iconoclastic, a compendium of little obsessions that together create a vivid portrait of how their author views the world."
-POPMATTERS.COM
"Fischoff weaves solitary minisamples into elaborate harmonies and beats of their own, giving The Crawl’s sweet electropop an impressive amount of depth—if the Postal Service was a little smarter, it might sound something like this."
-TIME OUT CHICAGO
"As tales of reinvention go, Chicago-based singer-songwriter Dave Fischoff's could sit comfortably aside The Count of Monte Cristo. On 1998's Winston Park, he kept residence in the shell of an idea, carving fuzz-caked frescoes in the poetic gloaming. But The Crawl comes across almost like a Terry Gilliam take on Cristo, all exaggerated pieces filmed with a fish-eye lens that rarely stray from the main character's rifts between fantasy and reality. Endearing indie-tronic melodies and low-bit pneumatics place Fischoff in the territory of Figurine/Styrofoam, but the jittery staging never subverts the humanity."
-XLR8R
"Equal parts Brian Wilson, Sufjan Stevens, and the Postal Service (though certainly not a sum of the three), Fischoff crafts lovely and delicate pop that should appeal to a pretty wide swath of listeners."
-DUSTEDMAGAZINE.COM
"…an incredibly intricate slice of baroque electro-pop that's been compared to the likes of Brian Wilson, Burt Bacharach and the Magnetic Fields, just to name a few. Fischoff deserves these comparisons and more with this album that seems to get better with every successive track….The Crawl is one of those albums that delights you in a different way every time you listen to it."
-TREBLEZINE.COM
You can BUY DAVE FISCHOFF’S THE CRAWL DIRECTLY FROM SECRETLY CANADIAN (click here), AMAZON.COM (click here) or your favorite independent music retailer.
You can DOWNLOAD DAVE FISCHOFF’S THE CRAWL FROM EMUSIC (click here) or ITUNES.
You can LISTEN TO DAVE FISCHOFF'S THE CRAWL IN ITS ENTIRETY at http://davefischoff.com/Music (click here).
happy to hear the show went well : ) still bummed i missed it but i had a good time at the show in seattle. hope to catch you next time you come this way.
goodness, you didn't happen to play jens' show?! a friend had tickets for that, but i had already agreed to go see the whigs. too bad. *this* close. anyways, until i see you live, i'll be enjoying your tunes. thanks!
Dave, I think that was one of the best Dave Fischoff performances I've ever seen! (And I've had quite a sampling over the years, since the debut of the Grandma Song in 1993-94).
