Columboid

In January of 2009, Neil Benjamin and Ryan Hamilton stepped into a basement in Queens, New York. Without having a sense of what the music would sound like or who would be playing what instrument, they almost immediately created their first song, "Statehoarders". It became the precedent of chemistry that Columboid (named before the first practice) would establish and a full set of dirty primal-synth new wave minimalism followed suit. After an initial stint as two-piece Read more on Last.fm …read full bio

In January of 2009, Neil Benjamin and Ryan Hamilton stepped into a basement in Queens, New York. Without having a sense of what the music would sound like or who would be playing what instrument, they almost immediately created their first song, "Statehoarders". It became the precedent of chemistry that Columboid (named before the first practice) would establish and a full set of dirty primal-synth new wave minimalism followed suit. After an initial stint as two-piece, Hamilton (Keys,Vocals) and Benjamin (Drums,Vocals) soon added Russell Higbee (Hamiltion's PA childhood friend, ex-Coyote band mate, and main Man- Man) on Bass. No strangers to all things DIY, they recorded on Benjamin's laptop in December of '09 and released the songs as their debut cassette tape, Cruise on your Own. Their first proper studio recorded release We Were One is set for release, naturally, by La Société Expéditionnaire. Columboid consists of past and/or present members of many outfits, most notably Coyote, Man-Man, Lewis and Clarke, Vaz, and Icy Demons. Columboid is: Neil Benjamin, Ryan Hamilton, Russell Higbee Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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