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Throw Me the Statue

Group Members:

Will Cone, Aaron Goldman, Joe Syverson, Scott Reitherman, Jarred Grimes

Similar Artists:

Grand Archives, Grandaddy, Band of Horses, Panda Bear, Beirut, Andrew Bird

Influenced By:

Beulah, The Microphones, Self, Belle & Sebastian, Papas Fritas, The Shins, Joy Division, The Field Mice
  • Genres: Rock
  • Representative Albums: "Moonbeams

Biography

Taking the moniker Throw Me the Statue from an old mixtape title, one-man multi-instrumentalist Scott Reitherman relocated from Half Moon Bay, a small city south of San Francisco, to New York and then Seattle with aspirations of starting up an independent label called Baskerville Hill Records. Inspired by the lo-fi and D.I.Y. sensibilities of K Records, he started putting out CDs in 2004, including one by fellow Vassar College student Sam Beebe (aka Black Bear). Around the same time, Reitherman started multi-tracking an album of jangly indie pop using layers of guitars, keys, drum machines, melodicas, glockenspiels, and whatever else he could add to the mix. Although he wrote and performed the majority of the album himself, some friends contributed to the process, including Casey Foubert of Pedro the Lion and Sufjan Stevens' band. When his debut album, Moonbeams, was finished in April of 2007, Reitherman started assembling a live band, wrangling up Aaron Goldman, Will Cone, Joe Syverson, and Jarred Grimes to assist him on-stage. Secretly Canadian caught wind of his project, and signed Throw Me the Statue to the label's high-profile indie roster, before re-releasing the album and sending him on the road to open up for Jens Lekman on tour in the beginning of 2008. ~ Jason Lymangrover, All Music Guide
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Throw Me the Statue

Background information
Origin Seattle, Washington, USA
Genres Indie pop
Years active 2005–present
Labels Secretly Canadian
Website [1]

Throw Me the Statue is an American indie pop band.

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Biography

Throw Me the Statue was formed by Scott Reitherman after he began self-releasing CDs of buzzy, lo-fi indie pop in 2004. Friends, including Pedro the Lion member Casey Foubert, pitched in to help as Reitherman added instruments including drum machines and glockenspiels to round out his sound. A full band came into shape in early 2007 as Throw me the Statue's debut album Moonbeams was released on Reitherman's Baskerville Hill label and later on Secretly Canadian. They have been featured on Pitchfork Media[1] and NPR [2] and have received airplay on the independent Seattle radio station KEXP.

In 2008 Throw Me the Statue toured the US, played at SXSW, Bumbershoot, the Sasquatch Festival, and opened for Cake in Seattle.

The album Moonbeams made it to #16 of 100 on the Amazon Music Best of 2008 Editors Picks list.[3]

Their second album, Creaturesque was released in August 2009. They also performed a version of Huey Lewis and the News's hit, "If This Is It", for an upcoming Huey Lewis tribute album.[citation needed]

Discography

Albums

  • Moonbeams (CD) - Baskerville Hill - 2007
  • Moonbeams (re-release) (CD) - Secretly Canadian - 2008
  • Creaturesque (CD/LP) - Secretly Canadian - 2009

Singles

  • "About to Walk" (CD) - Baskerville Hill - 2007
  • "Lolita" (7"/CD) - Secretly Canadian - 2008

EPs

  • "Purpleface" (CD) - Secretly Canadian - 2009

Notes and references

  1. ^ "New Music: Throw Me The Statue". http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/forkcast/44116-throw-me-the-statue-lolita-mp3stream. Retrieved July 27, 2007. 
  2. ^ "Throw Me The Statue: 'Lolita'". http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18518156. Retrieved February 1, 2008. 
  3. ^ "Best of 2008: Top 100 Editors' Picks". Amazon.com. http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_7882232_6?ie=UTF8&docId=1000303401&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=1GZ3EGGA277WKDCW3STY&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=462545401&pf_rd_i=284005011. Retrieved 2009-05-24. 

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