Atlas and the Astronaut
Vancouver, Washington, United States | Established. Jan 01, 2011
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"...the punk-tinged Atlas and the Astronaut have also become mainstays on the Portland show calendar." - Willamette Week
"...combines aggressive, grimy guitar riffs and dissonant vocals to create quintessentially gritty, post-punk rock, similar in many ways to Mars Volta." - The Vancouver Vector
"The spacey fusion of classic prog-rock and raw, live-wire punk on their self-titled EP makes for some excellent listening..." - SodaPop Journal
"...reminiscent of Guided By Voices’s Isolation Drills album with a post-modern rock twist to it." - Aural6.com
"...reminiscent of Guided By Voices’s Isolation Drills album with a post-modern rock twist to it." - Aural6.com
"Short, punchy, spiky tracks that roll and rock and more: great groovy guitar playing, drums that make your feet move and energizing vocals..." - Grave Concerns
Discography
Tiny Artifacts / November 25, 2014
Marrow, the Anchor - Single / February 13, 2013
Weight of a Hummingbird - Single / January 8, 2013
Atlas and the Astronaut - EP / July 28, 2012
Summer Demos '11 / August 3, 2011
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Bio
Loud, heavy rock 'n' roll with fatalistic bravado
Fueled with mythic yowling and their own wily futuristic-heavy aesthetic, Atlas and the Astronaut brings surprise and passion to a growing crowd of melted faces in the Portland, Oregon area.
In their 2014 debut full length, Tiny Artifacts, the precise pummeling of Luke Goughnour’s drums and Casey Aspengren’s bass pave a spiraled path into Matt LeMieux’s insistent, hedge maze of a guitar, while frantic voices rise from hyperactive bard Beau Rosser, incanting supernatural tales of betrayal, vendetta and interplanetary strife.
The boys will be in the studio soon and a second album is anticipated in 2016.
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