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Years active
  
1994–2005

Website
  
Official site

Active until
  
2005

Past members
  
Rory Leitch

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Albums
  
German Water, Night Mute, Interiors, Pills Versus Planes, Summing the Approach

Members
  
Chris Carothers, Rory Leitch, Joey Ficken, Kevin Duneman, Daniel Burton

Genres
  
Math rock, Instrumental rock

Similar
  
Early Day Miners, Dianogah, June Panic, Unwed Sailor, Windsor for the Derby

Ativin is an experimental post-rock band from Bloomington, Indiana. Chris Carothers and Dan Burton of Early Day Miners make up their core, with a revolving door of drummers.

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Biography

Formed in Bloomington, Indiana in the winter of 1994 after Chris Carothers (guitar) and Rory Leitch (drums) met at Indiana University. Guitarist Dan Burton joined the group the following spring, cementing the band's loud, instrumental rock sound. Steve Albini and Carl Saff recorded the band's debut EP, Pills vs. Planes, which was released in December 1996. The spring of 1997 saw the release of the Modern Gang Reader/Larkin single, the first of several releases for Secretly Canadian Records. The band worked with Andy Bryant at King Size on German Water, its debut album for Secretly Canadian, releasing it in March 1998. A return to Albini's Chicago studio, Electrical Audio, yielded the four-song EP Summing The Approach, which was released in the fall of 1998. Taking a break while Carothers moved out west and Burton worked on Early Day Miners, Ativin reconvened in 2001 with drummer Kevin Duneman, to record Interiors, which added sparse, minimalist vocals to their sound. Interiors was released in early 2002 to critical acclaim. Continuing on in the same vein, Ativin recorded Night Mute in both Bloomington and Portland, using drummers Mark Rice (John Wilkes Booze) and Joey Ficken (The Swords Project) for release in early 2004.

Discography

  • Pills Versus Planes (1996)
  • Modern Gang Reader/ Larkin - 7" (Secretly Canadian, 1997)
  • German Water (Secretly Canadian, 1999)
  • Summing the Approach (Secretly Canadian, 1999)
  • Interiors (Secretly Canadian, 2002)
  • Night Mute (Secretly Canadian, 2004)
  • Songs

    Riding and RoamingSumming the Approach · 1999
    Meeting With the Center of the EarthGerman Water · 1999
    Back at the LabGerman Water · 1999

    References

    Ativin Wikipedia


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