Years active 2015-present Members Lane Moore | Record label SELF-RELEASED Albums S / T | |
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Instruments Vocals, electric ukulele, guitar, piano, synthesizer, bass guitar, drums, accordion Website www.facebook.com/itwasromance Origin Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States Genres Garage rock, Indie rock, Folk rock, Blues rock, Alternative rock | ||
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It Was Romance is an American rock band formed by Lane Moore. It began as the bedroom recording project of lead singer and songwriter Moore, who years later added a backing band. Moore is the chief songwriter, singer, and multi-instrumentalist, using an electric ukulele with distortion that she plays like an electric guitar as well as piano, synthesizer, accordion, bass guitar, and percussion. Bust magazine called It Was Romance The Best Band Of 2015.
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History
It Was Romance began as a solo project by Lane Moore, who originally played all of the instruments and sang. In 2015, she expanded to include a backing band, releasing the self-titled album in 2015 to critical acclaim.
The Village Voice premiered their first single, "Philadelphia," on their website and praised the album.
Paste Magazine described their sound as "hearkening back to a Dig Me Out era Sleater Kinney, Moore’s expansive sound covers love and all its mishaps with a catchy, blast loud and sing proud thoughtfulness. Blending garage rock with soul and experimental undertones, It Was Romance...walks multiple genres with a deft grace to mirror Moore’s bubbly wit and eye-catching presence."
BuzzFeed included their first single "Philadelphia" in their Songs You Need In Your Life This Summer
The band released a music video for the first single "Philadelphia" in June 2015. The video was directed by Moore and was an homage to the John Waters film Cry-Baby, with Moore playing Johnny Depp and Traci Lords. The Advocate praised the video. Curve Magazine called the video "badass." Out Magazine praised the video as well.
The music video for "Hooking Up With Girls" was released in late 2016 on the front page of Nylon (magazine). The video is a shot-for-shot remake of Fiona Apple's "Criminal" music video. Moore starred in and directed the music video.
The video was quickly picked up by numerous media outlets, including Entertainment Weekly, Billboard, Vogue, The Huffington Post, The Guardian, VICE, BUST Magazine, Refinery 29, and The Onion's AV Club New York Magazine and The Observer praised Moore for the video
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Songs
Hooking up With GirlsS / T · 2015
It's Like You're Not Even TryingS / T · 2015
But Not ForgottenS / T · 2015