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Still House Plants
Genres Art rock, experimental rock
Years active2015-present
MembersJessica Hickie-Kallenbach, David Kennedy, Finlay Clark

Still House Plants is a British art rock band based in London, consisting of Jessica Hickie-Kallenbach (vocals), David Kennedy (drums), and Finlay Clark (guitar). [1] [2]

History

Members of the band met at the Glasgow School of Art in 2013, [3] and began making music together after a year. They originally went by the name 'Your Haircut', but later adopted the name 'Still House Plants' inspired by a New York artist collective and a show which they titled 'singing for our houseplants'. Their early releases were put out on the experimental Glasgow label, GLARC, and were often recorded over short periods of time and with little production alteration. [3] [4]

In 2020, the band released their first full-length albums, Long Play and Fast Edit, under the label Bison. The sounds of these releases were inspired by jazz and rhythm-and-blues conventions, alongside garage rock. Jenn Pelly of The New Yorker noted Hickie-Kallenbach's raspy voice, Kennedy's free-jazz drumming, and the "ache and clean tones of emo" in Clark's guitar. [3] [5] [2]

In 2024, they released the album If I Don't Make It, I Love U, to universal critical acclaim. [6] The work, described as post-rock with influences of soul and jazz, [1] [7] was praised by The Guardian particularly for Hickie-Kallenbach's "luminously soulful" vocals. [8]

Discography

Albums

Singles

  • Shy Song - 2020
  • Do - 2020
  • Able To - 2020
  • More More Faster - 2021 [9]

References

  1. ^ a b Pelly, Jenn (2024-04-23). "If I Don't Make It, I Love U". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2024-05-15.
  2. ^ a b Pelly, Jenn (2023-03-17). "Still House Plants". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2024-05-17.
  3. ^ a b c "Still House Plants: 'In experimental music there's a lot of whiteness, snobbery, pretension' | Experimental music | The Guardian". amp.theguardian.com. Retrieved 2024-05-15.
  4. ^ Breznikar, Klemen (2018-02-26). "Still House Plants". It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine. Retrieved 2024-05-15.
  5. ^ "Long Play – Still House Plants ← Cafe OTO". www.cafeoto.co.uk. Retrieved 2024-05-15.
  6. ^ If I don't make it, I love u by Still House Plants, retrieved 2024-05-16
  7. ^ Quietus, The (2024-04-12). "Still House Plants — If i don't make it, i love u". The Quietus. Retrieved 2024-05-29.
  8. ^ Beaumont-Thomas, Ben (2024-04-12). "Still House Plants: If I Don't Make It, I Love U review – inspiringly fearless and free art rock". The Guardian. ISSN  0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-05-16.
  9. ^ Frere-Jones, Sasha (2023-03-21). "SAVAGE GARDEN". Artforum. Retrieved 2024-05-15.