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Equally indebted to the Shins, Brian Wilson, and John Lennon, the Morning Benders mix sunny pop songcraft with jangling guitars, double-tracked vocals, and collegiate wit. Frontman Chris Chu launched the group as a solo project in 2005, using a single microphone and laptop to record his early songs.
The Loose Change EP arrived in September 2006, and Chu subsequently opened the Benders' doors to several of his UC Berkeley classmates, including drummer Julian Harmon, bassist Tim Or, and guitarist/organist Joe Ferrell. A second EP, Boarded Doors, appeared in early 2007 and was well received by such Bay Area publications as The SF Weekly, prompting Chu to take a part-time job as a studio engineer in order to finance an additional record. Largely produced, engineered, and mixed by Chu himself, the full-length Talking Through Tin Cans arrived in May 2008 on the newly minted +1 Records label. ~ Andrew Leahey, All Music Guide |
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 It was a lazy Saturday afternoon, with a Heineken in one hand and my iPod in the
other, that I came across The Morning Benders. I remembered their last album,
Talking Through Tin Cans, as one of those catchy sing-along albums. The
Boarded Doors music video left a lasting image every teenage boyhood fantasy. It
occurred to me that I had downloaded their new album, Grain of Salt, a
couple weeks ago but never had the time to focus on the album. Once again, Chris
Chu, Julian Harmon, Tim Orr and Joe Farrell managed to come up with a rhythmic
collaboration of the Beatles, the Shins, and Pink Floyd to call it their own. After kicking off with Grain of Salt, Your Dark Side came on.
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The Morning Benders
