Years active 2005 - Present Website Official Website Albums Arrows, We Love Our Enemy | Labels The Mylene Sheath Record label The Mylene Sheath | |
Members Scott Bennett: Bass/Vox
Dave Sumner: Drums/Media Samples
Andrew Schiller: Guitar Origin Kansas City, Missouri, United States Genres Post-rock, Downtempo, Shoegazing Similar Beneath Oblivion, Beware of Safety, Gifts from Enola, Junius, Caspian | ||
Actors&Actresses is a three-piece band from Kansas City, Missouri. Their music is characterised with having ambient guitars and downtempo vocals.
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History
Formed in 2005 Actors&Actresses quickly made an impact in the Midwest region. Their first album was a self-released EP titled ' We Love Our Enemy'. Sold at local stores and over the internet, the CD caught the interest of touring post-rock band Caspian (band), who then introduced members to the owners and operators of the record label The Mylene Sheath during South by Southwest in 2008. Actors&Actresses were added to the label after a show in Kansas City in August 2008. The group went on to record their first full length which was released on LP, CD and through digital networks in June 2009 to positive reviews.
Instrumentation
The band achieves a unique sound by playing the bass and guitar in alternate tunings, neither of which are tuned to standard A440.
Scott Bennett plays a Rickenbacker 4001C electric bass tuned to B F# B F#, and often uses a capo to further alter the tuning.
Andrew Schiller plays a Paul Reed Smith McCarty Standard model guitar tuned to drop D tuning further down tuned another half step to C#.
David Sumner plays custom C&C Drums with over-sized tom shells and an 18x24 inch bass drum.
Discography
We Love Our Enemy EP - Self Released - CD (2005)
Arrows - The Mylene Sheath - LP/CD (2009)
We Love Our Enemy EP vinyl re-issue - The Mylene Sheath - LP/CD (2011)
ARC - The Mylene Sheath - LP (2011)
Pyre - Self Released - LP (2015)
Compilation Appearances
SunSeaSky Records - Winter Online Sampler (2006)
Dandercroft Magazine - Spring Compilation - CD (2006)
Exploding In Sound - In Case of Evacuation - (2010)
Present Magazine - Mailbox #49 (2010)
Pop Up Records - Songs of Farewell & Departure: A Tribute to Hum - CD (2011)
Songs
Dig to ChinaArrows · 2009
I'll Turn You BlueWe Love Our Enemy · 2005
Our Hallowed DayArrows · 2009