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The Airborne Toxic Event Artist Snapshot:

Packing literate indie rock with real literary cred and turning it up to eleven, Los Angeles' The Airborne Toxic Event are a dream for fans of whipsmart lyrics, narrative, and emotive grandiosity in their pop songs. The brainchild of writer Mikel Jollett--who named the band after a phrase in Don Delillo's classic postmodern novel, WHITE NOISE--the quintet have fused bracing indie rock with a lush synthesis of keyboards and classical strings to emerge as the breakout band of 2008 in L.A. After racking regular rotations on star-making alternative stations like Seattle's KEXP, L.A.'s KROQ, and Boston's WFNX as an unsigned act and appearing at high profile shows in L.A., they settled on Majordomo, an indie rock label run by members of the duo Earlimart. Jollett began the project in 2006 while trying to write a novel.

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DISC 1 for The Airborne Toxic Event (CD) Album By The Airborne Toxic Event (Arti...
1   Wishing Well
2   Papillon
3   Gasoline
4   Happiness is Overrated
5   Does This Mean You're Moving On?
6   This is Nowhere
7   Sometime Around Midnight
8   Something New
9   Missy
10   Innocence
11   Winning Side, The
12   This Losing
13   Girls In Their Summer Dresses, The
 

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Entertainment Weekly (p.59) - "[The album is] enthralled with guitar noise....It's also sewn through with an endearing passion that screams of potential."
Q (Magazine) (p.93) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[With] opener 'Wishing Well,' the lustful 'Gasoline' and 'Something New''s confused relationship tracing a historical line from The Strokes to The Killers..."
Blender (Magazine) (p.80) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "On 'Innocence,' a gorgeous viola intro gives way to ecstatic new-wave-ish keyboards, and the rousing 'Sometime Around Midnight' makes late-night pining sound positively heroic."
Clash (magazine) (p.101) - "A tragic record of turmoil set to towering pop blasts; an emotive hurricane is upon us."

Title Note

The Airborne Toxic Event: Anna Bulbrook, Daren Taylor, Mikel Jollett, Noah Harmon, Steven Chen.

Audio Remasterer: Evren Goknar.

After building a substantial following in their native Los Angeles and creating a buzz on the Internet, indie rockers the Airborne Toxic Event signed to Majordomo records to release their self-titled debut. THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT showcases the quintet's energetic sound which draws equally from the biting passion of the Clash and the expansive, anthemic feeling of the Arcade Fire. The music rocks hard, but it's also augmented by strings and keys, creating a distinctive sound that's at once fresh and familiar. "Gasoline," "Happiness is Overrated," and "Sometime Around Midnight" are highlights of this overall impressive debut.

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