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About the Antivillains
“So Much For Romance” is the first full length offering from Toledo/Brooklyn based band The Antivillains. Its rust-belt roots are fully apparent and bring a certain romantic notion to the Midwest as a place for growing up, a place for romance and sadness, a place forgotten. Much of the record’s inspiration is drawn from the members’ own convoluted relationships. Their songs are isolated, claustrophobic, and cinematic in their range of emotional drama and musical extremes. They have developed a reputation throughout the Midwest, drawing comparisons with Beth Orton, Yo La Tengo and the Velvet Underground, among others. Aside from some promotional help by their friends at Little Pocket Records, it is self produced, self released and self distributed. Splitting their time between Brooklyn and Toledo, the band is currently recording demos for an upcoming EP and looking to play as many shows as possible.
The Antivillains are a trio composed of siblings Sarah and Ben Cohen, and jazz percussionist Sam Woldenberg.
Selected Press and Reviews
From Allmusic.com full review here
(The Antivillains) have created a set of lovely, ethereal music built around simple harmonies, bittersweet guitar melodies, and artfully executed arrangements that conjure up a world of broken hearts and glorious sadness, echoing through the bedrooms of lonesome bohemians late on a mid-winter's night. So Much for Romance is strikingly accomplished stuff for an independent debut, suggesting some missing link between the Sundays and This Mortal Coil (only with more engaging melodies), and the production and arrangements are remarkably intelligent and effective. -- Mark Deming
From Detroit Metro Times (link)
"If this is Glass City's finest, sign me up!"
From the "Do Your Best Not to Miss This" file is a heads-up that the Toledo trio Antivillains will be sharing a bill with two of our fair city's brightest lights, Zoos of Berlin and Wildcatting, at the Corktown Tavern next week — Feb. 6 to be exact (plenty of time to plan, right?). Antivillains are centered around the young and vibrant chops of brother-sister duo Ben and Sarah Cohen, with Sam Woldenberg along for the ride. Their MySpace profile lists their "sounds like" as "the remains of the Grande Ballroom" and as romantic — and sometimes appropriate — as that sounds, there's something more here. They work the melancholy like no one's business — certainly with more authority than most twice their age — giving it a haunted-heart insight and soundtrack quality (in fact, they cover the Bond theme, "You Only Live Twice" — do listen to it) that suggests a holy alliance of Portishead, Beth Orton and Velvet Underground-y goodness couched firmly in an analog duskiness that wouldn't be out of place sharing a stage with locals like American Mars, Sunshine Doray and the Gangplank gang. There's a scant three songs on offer, but they bear repeat listens. You're welcome! ---- Chris Handyside
From Great Lakes Indie Music full review here
On their forthcoming album So Much for Romance, brother and sister Ben and Sarah Cohen weave immaculately conceived harmonies into shimmering vistas of love lost.