El Ten Eleven (self-titled)

"Springing with glowing rhythms, ETE’s work champions intelligent, circuitous songwriting while using short runtimes. The duo uses only two primary tools — Dunn on a majestic double neck bass/guitar combo and Fogarty on drums — while accenting their compositions with a complicated system of loops and pedals. They have so few instruments for practicality purposes. 'If we didn’t have all the looping, there would have to be other musicians,' says Dunn. 'We’ve really made it so that we sound like a six-person band, but there’s two of us and that’s really freeing.' While those sonics can be heavenly, El Ten Eleven treats its music with a refreshingly down-to-earth perspective. 'We don’t even listen to post-rock, but one of the things we dislike about it is the lack of humor. A lot of those bands seem really self-absorbed and pretentious, not to knock anybody,' says Dunn. 'We take our music seriously, but you’ve got to have a sense of humor, don’t you?'" (Reyan Ali, "Practical Alchemy," New Haven Advocate, 9/9/10, p. 42).

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