My Autumn's Done Come

My Autumn's Done Come's new album Paper Flowers is without a doubt a Portland record. From sound to subject, the band's first full-length chronicles a story all too familiar to many a Portlander; life in a new city and the struggle of artistic creation. In 2010 Andrew Hanna, and fraternal rhythm section Garrett and Tyler Brown all found themselves relatively new in Portland and bandless. They soon formed as a three piece, taking a stylistic cue from Garrett Brown and Hanna's recently defunct scraggly pop band, Last Trains. Read more on Last.fm …read full bio

My Autumn's Done Come's new album Paper Flowers is without a doubt a Portland record. From sound to subject, the band's first full-length chronicles a story all too familiar to many a Portlander; life in a new city and the struggle of artistic creation. In 2010 Andrew Hanna, and fraternal rhythm section Garrett and Tyler Brown all found themselves relatively new in Portland and bandless. They soon formed as a three piece, taking a stylistic cue from Garrett Brown and Hanna's recently defunct scraggly pop band, Last Trains. MADC soon recruited long time friends, singer Lilly Maher and guitar player Andrew Lorish, to expand the sound. All relocated from Eugene, four-fifths MADC's members have played together since high-school. The band takes its name from a haunting song by Lee Hazelwood, a seminal Nashville singer and producer whose unique productions and arrangements created his esoteric and idiosyncratic style. This allusion illustrates the core of the band's philosophy and the depth of the band's influences: from folk to soul, jazz to modern indie and pop, the band seeks to solidify singer Andrew Hanna's songwriting within the tower of American song while fomenting the band's own referential and pastiche elements. After three months of struggling to find their sound, MADC recorded and self-released a four-song EP. Six months later they began working on a full-length. Paper Flowers was recorded and self-produced over the summer 2011 at Secret Society Studios with engineer Jordan Leff. The set of songs on the record were written during Hanna's second year living in Portland and the imagery reflects the city--three of the albums tracks are named for Portland bridges. Several of the songs were thought up on Hanna's jogs down by the waterfront: "passing under those bridges three times a week bridges really affected me and connected me to the city." "Burnside Bridge," for example, highlights the experience of the historical in everyday life walking along the East Bank Esplanade. Other songs on the record focus on the the act of creation and the nature of experiencing art. The titular "Paper Flowers" is itself a metaphor for artistic creation-- all of our creative endeavors reflect our confrontation with death. The goal of the album, according to Hanna was to meld old and new production values, to blend the band's love of old and new music. "Plastic Ono Band was a huge inspiration for the production of the record," admits Hanna "though I don't think you''d immediately think of that album listening to our record." The resulting sound is a collage of styles and sounds from different eras set firmly in Portland today. 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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