Artist: Head Automatica
Genre(s):
ROck: Alternative
Rock
Discography:
Popaganda
Year: 2006
Tracks: 13
Beating Heart Baby
Year: 2005
Tracks: 3
Tokyo Decadence
Year: 2004
Tracks: 14
Decadence
Year: 2004
Tracks: 11
Head Automatica was the slightly unlikely mating of vocalist Daryl Palumbo -- he of N.Y.C. hard-core stalwarts Glassjaw -- and producer Dan the Automator (aka Dan Nakamura of Gorillaz, Handsome Boy Modeling School). Introduced by common friends, the duette began turn on their debut, aiming for a good somewhere in between the Automator's beat generation and squiggles and Palumbo's preference for john Rock and punk. When Degeneracy appeared in recent summertime 2004, its groove was just that, a bright and rubbishy shuffle of electronics and rock & drift, the tolerant of thing for which late nights were made. Palumbo and Automator place together a route band and toured the disc, hooking up with such disparate acts of the Apostles as Lostprophets, Thrice, Interpol, and the Rapture. However, Palumbo's ongoing fight with Chron's disease, which the vocalizer suffered from since childhood, continued to turn over him problems spell on the road; assorted tour of duty dates had to be canceled as he exhausted time in and out of hospitals getting handling. He continued to recidivate as work on Head Automatica's sophomore Warner Bros. campaign began (and persisted during most all of its recordings). The ring -- now comprised of Palumbo, drummer Larry Gorman (ex-Glassjaw), bassist Jarvis Morgan Holden (ex-Give Up the Ghost), guitarist Craig Bonich, and keyboardist Jessie Nelson -- aquiline up with manufacturer Howard Benson to help create an record album with a "bright, frosty good." The resulting Popaganda was issued in June 2006. It proved to be an ably named record album that, without Dan the Automator round, largely lacked the electronics of Decadency, instead self-praise a relatively more straightforward guitar heavy for the most part influenced by tardy '70s pop. A subsequent summer tour of duty was fagged opening for Taking Back Sunday aboard Angels and Airwaves and the Subways.
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