Genres Folk Website Official website | Years active 2005–present Genre Folk music | |
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Albums Island Intervals, Nothing Is Precious Enough for Us, Stay Close Members Joel Thibodeau, Micah Smaldone, Pete Donnelly, Rachel Blumberg, Mike Gent Profiles | ||
Death vessel performs at wrni
Death Vessel is an American neo-traditional folk band from Rhode Island, signed to Sub Pop and ATP Recordings, and headed by Joel Thibodeau. Their first album, Stay Close was released on North East Indie Records in 2005 to critical acclaim.
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- Death vessel performs at wrni
- Division devastation death vessel starboard
- Biography
- Band members
- Honorary andor performing members
- Guest musicians in the studio
- Albums
- Songs
- References
Division devastation death vessel starboard
Biography
Born in Berlin, Germany and raised in Kennebunkport, Maine, Thibodeau moved to Boston, Massachusetts as a teenager and later to Providence, Rhode Island. From Providence he moved to Brooklyn, New York where he lived until moving back to Rhode Island in 2007. While in Providence he founded the band String Builder with his brother Alec and by early 2003 was playing as part of a duo with Erik Carlson, of Area C (formerly of the Purple Ivy Shadows), who he had met while living in Boston. Thibodeau and Carlson worked closely on the songs that would make up the band's first album, and performed together frequently during this period. A friend from his hometown, Micah Blue Smaldone, formerly of the Pinkerton Thugs and Out Cold also played with Thibodeau at this time and the two have toured as a duo as well. With Carlson (who co-wrote the song "Deep In the Horchata"), Smaldone, Todd Barneson, Brendan Skwire (of Jim and Jennie & The Pinetops), and Pete Donnelly (of The Figgs), Thibodeau began recording what would become Death Vessel's 2005 debut, Stay Close.
Stay Close was widely heralded for its solid songwriting, its musical ingenuity and for the unique quality of Thibodeau's crooning. His soprano register is exceptionally high for a male. Death Vessel has toured with Iron & Wine, Low, José González, and The Books, among others. In 2006 the band was signed to Seattle's venerated Sub Pop Records and London's ATP Recordings. Both labels gave Stay Close a wider release in their respective territories.
On 19 August 2008, Death Vessel's follow up to Stay Close, Nothing Is Precious Enough For Us, was released in the United States via Sub Pop Records.
In 2014, Death Vessel's third album, Island Intervals, was also by Sub Pop. Island Intervals was recorded in Reykjavik, Iceland by producer Alex Somers (Jónsi & Alex, Julianna Barwick). Jónsi of Sigur Rós appears on the song "Ilsa Drown".
Band members
Honorary and/or performing members
Guest musicians (in the studio)
Albums
Songs
Mercury DimeIsland Intervals · 2014
Ilsa DrownIsland Intervals · 2014
EjectaIsland Intervals · 2014