PROMO
BAND
Nathan Mathes
MUSIC
It's Not What We Mean It's How We Mean
Number Talking Passion Vans......................................mp3....lyrics
Foreign-Pressed Factories............................................mp3.....lyrics
When The One The Sun Names (Happens Briefly)....mp3.....lyrics
Soundscape Letdown....................................................mp3.....lyrics
I Dreamed I Killed Somebody........................................mp3.....lyrics
Fire Like TV
Boulevard.......................................................................mp3......lyrics
Blue Collar Valley..........................................................mp3......lyrics
To Not Be Sorry.............................................................mp3......lyrics
So Long Summers.........................................................mp3......lyrics
Turn Blue EP
Man In The North...........................................................mp3......lyrics
To Amuse.......................................................................mp3......lyrics
BIO
Heavily influenced by 60's and 70's pop, modern electronic music, and the blue-collar melancholy of Green Bay's industrial surroundings, Turn Blue is a band more interested in conveying emotion through complex melody and deceptively minimal soundscapes than conveying a meaning or message through played-out lyrical ideas.
Turn Blue pride themselves on their ability to create their mid-fi indie-pop recordings on their own terms. Their latest effort, It's Not What We Mean It's How We Mean, was recorded at home on a laptop computer.
Turn Blue tend to think of themselves as not unlike most other people. Their musical goal is to write songs that they would enjoy listening to in the hopes that other people like themselves will enjoy listening to those songs as well.
FEATURES
Featured at Rock Sellout.com in the Introducing section.
Featured at betterPropaganda.com -- here.
REVIEWS - Fire Like TV
Turn Blue turns in solid musicianship with songs that really bring back to the glory days of the mid ‘90s alternative rock scene on their compelling “Fire Like TV”. Only two people strong and hailing from the cheese state Wisconsin, Turn Blue is surprisingly thick with harmonies and catchy rock beats. Amazingly this joint was recorded on a laptop, which speaks to two things—how far home recordings have come, and how damn talented these two lads are. Great indie pop-rock that has stirring guitars and intriguing rhythms. Check ‘em out.
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A band of two Midwesterners creating beautifully crafted indie-pop rock has never sounded so fine. Turn Blue, consisting of multi-layered musicians Nathan Mathes and Mike Seppanen, has recently released their first full-length album, Fire Like TV. Recorded using the increasingly popular medium of lo- and mid-fi recording techniques, Fire Like TV offers a truly unique and masterfully constructed listening experience. Playing multiple instrumens, both Mathes and Seppanen bring consistent quality and texture to every song on the album. Mathes' melodiously melancholic voice combines with the uncomplicated richness of the music to make songs like "One Twenty One" and "Midwest Winter Workers" sound so good. The lyrics really speak to the band members' Midwestern upbringing and prove that Wisconsin's got a lot more going for it than great cheese. Fire Like TV, in all its unasumming glory, is an indie-inspired treasure.
Space City Rock
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With homespun melodies and restrained handclaps, the Wisconsinite duo of Turn blue specializes in a quiet breed of subdued pop. Acoustic strumming follows along closely to slow simple vocals, all home recorded and hushed. "Blue Collar Valley" boasts off-kilter drumming and basic pop structures, coupled with reverb as thick as humid air. Both the approach and the subject matter are fantastically Midwestern, and at times is reminiscent of the short-lived twin cities group Valender--not complex, but certainly pleasant enough. Fire Like TV is not perfectly recorded by any means, but considering that they are able to make their mark in an oversaturated genre, it remains a fantastic example of dreamy melancholy. Soak it in.
Punk Planet
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CONTACT
info[at]turnblueband.com
booking[at]turnblueband.com
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