P.H. Lovecraft- Voice, Edward Raison- Guitar, Frankie Teardrop- Bass, Oliver Lyons- Percussion.
Influences
David Cronenberg, David Lynch, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe, Rozz Williams, Bram Stoker, House of Leaves, Aleister Crowley, Bertold Brecht, Oscar Wilde, Jean Paul Sartre, Richard Hell, Francis Bacon, Glam, Punk, Postpunk, Goth, Girl Pop, The New Testament, Alfred Bester, Stanley Kubrick, Baudelaire, Johnny Cash, Mozart's Requiem, Brian Eno, William Shakespeare, The Dark Brothers, Sonic Youth, Philip K. Dick, Andre Breton, Guy Debord, Akira Yomaoka, etc.
Funeral Crashers debut full-length, La Fin Absolue Du Monde (the absolute end of the world) is now available through Cdbaby, Interpunk, iTunes, Hungry Eye, Projekt, and via funeralcrashers.com.
tracklisting:
1. Menlo Park
2. Disconnected
3. Safe
4. Faithless Sons
5. Whisper
6. A Personal Vendetta
7. Blackout Days
8. Mystery Hand
9. Malediction
10. Uninvited Guest
11. Video Killer
12. Nuclear Man
13. Curtain Rise / Curtain Fall
click below to purchase La Fin Absolue Du Monde:
In early 2005, founding vocalist PH Lovecraft and co-conspirators Edward Raison and Oliver Lyons finished plotting in obscurity and cut Funeral Crashers’ demo EP Children of an Indifferent God. With the addition of Frankie Teardrop on bass that summer, the band launched an attack on New York City with their musical Grand Guignol, supporting the likes of the Bellmer Dolls, Bunnydrums, and A Place to Bury Strangers.
Formed out of millennial madness, early incarnations of the band careened through rotating personnel and lengthy break-ups in the early-2000s downtown scene, a corpse that wouldn’t stay dead. The group’s name nods to cult film Harold and Maude, and they proudly draw inspiration from vintage punk, post-punk, and early gothic rock, as well as the Velvet Underground, 70s glam, and the Jesus and Mary Chain’s more aggressive shoe-gazing. But rather than a nostalgia trip, the Funeral Crashers are focused on updating their influences for the present.
In October 2007, the band unveiled their first full-length CD, La Fin Absolue Du Monde, available as both disc and download. The songs twitch, creep, and assault, wailing the Apocalypse and loves lost on one hand, winking references to historical oddities, horror novels, and 50s sci-fi on the other. It’s the perfect soundtrack for your postmodern crisis…
***menlo park- live at the continental- 2.27.06. filmed by blake farber***
droping a line? No,no. I didn't mean to insult you. It was just a surprise, is all. I like POP too! I like the real shitty pop like Kate and Avril...so I have no right to talk. But most of my pop stuff is good, like Nana Kitade, Helen Love, Jellyfish, and Erasure.
Wow! I can't stop listening to "Video Killer". That is a brilliant song with an amazing chorus that makes me want to play it over and over.
Thanks for adding our band. Let us know if you can make it to New Orleans. We'll be happy to help. Keep tuned in. I'll have some new tracks up as I get around to it.
I'll be in town this weekend doing some promotion for the upcoming Salvation gig. Hopefully I'll kick up some carpathian dust with at least one of you!
FUNERAL CRASHERS-
