Occupation(s) Musician Labels Matador Records Role Musician | Name Rob Laakso Website www.roblaakso.com | |
Genres Indie rock, indie folk, lo-fi Instruments Guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, synthesizers Associated acts Kurt Vile & the Violators, Swirlies, Mice Parade Music groups Swirlies (Since 1997), Mice Parade Similar Adam Pierce, Doug Scharin, Gunnar Orn Tynes, Caroline Lufkin, Seana Carmody | ||
Rig Rundown - Kurt Vile & The Violators
Rob Laakso is an American musician, record producer and engineer, best known as the recording partner of indie rock musician Kurt Vile, and as a multi-instrumentalist in his backing band The Violators. Laakso is also a multi-instrumentalist in the shoegaze band Swirlies, and a former member of Mice Parade, contributing to the studio albums, Obrigado Saudade (2004), Mice Parade (2007) and What It Means to Be Left-Handed (2010).
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After contributing to Vile's second and fourth studio albums, God Is Saying This to You... (2009) and Smoke Ring for My Halo (2011), Laakso became a full member of The Violators in 2011, following the departure of guitarist Adam Granduciel. Upon joining the band, Laakso contributed heavily to Vile's subsequent studio albums, Wakin on a Pretty Daze (2013) and b'lieve I'm goin down... (2015).
Discography
with Kurt Vile
with Mice Parade
with The Wicked Farleys