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Saxon Shore (band)

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Years active
  
2001–present

Record label
  
Burnt Toast Vinyl

Website
  
Official website


Labels
  
Burnt Toast Vinyl (2003-Present) Broken Factory Records (2001-2002)

Associated acts
  
Warm Ghost Midnight Faces Brightest Feathers General Soporus

Past members
  
Josh Tillman Zach Tillman Matt Stone

Origin
  
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States (2001)

Albums
  
The Exquisite Death of Saxon Shore, Be a Bright Blue

Members
  
J. Tillman, Stephen Roessner, Oliver Chapoy

Genres
  
Post-rock, Instrumental rock, Ambient music, Shoegazing

Similar
  
Joy Wants Eternity, Yndi Halda, The Six Parts Seven, Unwed Sailor, Caspian

Saxon Shore is an American post-rock band consisting of members from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Brooklyn, New York. The group has thus far released five albums: one packaged as an EP (Luck Will Not Save Us...) and four as full-lengths. Earlier records featured only five to seven songs, while more recent albums have had several more.

Contents

Saxon Shore's overall sound has been compared to Caspian, Explosions in the Sky, Joy Wants Eternity, This Will Destroy You, and God is an Astronaut.

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History

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Saxon Shore formed in 2001 as the joint project of guitarist Matthew Doty and drummer Josh Tillman. The two wrote several songs that, in time, were recorded for the duo's debut album Be a Bright Blue, released on Doty's own imprint, Broken Factory Records. Tillman's brother Zach was recruited for bass duties during the studio process and found himself becoming a full-fledged member.

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After a host of tours across the United States (in which the band recruited three separate bassists), Doty moved to Seattle and later exchanged four-tracks with Josh Tillman, who was living in upstate New York at the time. Studio time reserved in Atlanta eventually blossomed into their next effort, Four Months of Darkness. Traveling musician Matt Stone contributing on guitar and like Zach before him, joined, making the group a four-piece. The album marked a change in Saxon Shore's sound from the light indie pop of Be a Bright Blue to the more melodic Four Months.

Current members

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  • Matt Doty – Electric guitar, keyboards, programming, rhodes, piano
  • Oliver Chapoy – Guitar, piano, rhodes, synths, programming, celeste
  • Stephen Roessner – drums, vibraphone, rhodes, percussion
  • Will Stichter – Bass guitar

    • Former members

  • Josh Tillman – Drums (2001–2004)
  • Zach Tillman – Bass guitar (2002–2004)
  • Matt Stone – Electric guitar, keyboards (2003)

    • Touring members

  • Justin Saxby – Bass guitar (summer 2003)
  • Bethany Olson – Keyboards (winter 2003)
  • Joel Votaw – Bass guitar (spring-summer 2003)
  • Erin Berkey – Keyboards, bells (summer 2002)
  • Jesse Pierce – Bass guitar (winter 2002)

    • Discography

  • 2002: Be a Bright Blue – LP (Broken Factory Records)
  • 2003: Four Months of Darkness – LP (Burnt Toast Vinyl)
  • 2005: Be a Bright Blue (Digipak re-release) – LP(Burnt Toast Vinyl)
  • 2005: Luck Will Not Save Us From a Jackpot of Nothing – EP (Burnt Toast Vinyl)
  • 2005: The Exquisite Death of Saxon Shore – LP (Burnt Toast Vinyl)
  • 2009: It Doesn't Matter – LP (Broken Factory Records/& Records)

    • Side projects

    Since 2005, Saxon Shore members have gone on to work on other musical projects, including:

  • Midnight Faces - West Coast synth pop featuring Doty and singer Phil Stancil.
  • Williams Shift - Pop music penned by Stone and Roessner, with fellow musicians Matt Thomas and Jill Purdy.

    • Songs

    TwelevenIt Doesn’t Matter · 2009
    This Shameless MomentThe Exquisite Death of Saxon Shore · 2005
    Marked with the KnowledgeThe Exquisite Death of Saxon Shore · 2005

    References

    Saxon Shore (band) Wikipedia
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