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Press
"This talented 5-piece, led by Allen Orr, crafts smart, danceable songs that take you down with a three-pronged strike to the brain, heart and hips." - The Deli Magazine
"The more you listen, the more you get sucked in to a real sleeper LP."
- The Big Takeover
"Every song is a potential hit with a musical formula that is deliciously infectious. It's just damn good music." - Movement Magazine
"Anthem In creates cool and heady pop that is simultaneously hummable and danceable." - LMNOP
"With a hip shaking bass holding it down for all the twists and turns, Brooklyn's Anthem In keep the melodies solid to the end." - Parasites and Sycophants
"I expect to go back to the album more often then not for the rest of 2008." - Allan's World Music
"Anthem In made my head spin, what with its special intoxicating pop qualities, soaring in from nowhere and into our grateful ear canals in true sleeper fashion." - A Limerick Ox
"This is the kind of beatific album which walks the fine line between indie pop and radio rock, never stepping too far in either direction, always pulling you further and further in until they’ve got you right where they want you... I haven’t stopped listening to it from the second I put it on!" - Loudersoft
Discography
Anthem In's self-titled album, released June 24, 2008 debuted on the CMJ Radio 200 charts at #118 and is currently being played at over 100 radio stations across the country. The album has climbed the charts and made it up to #2 at KUCI in Irvine, CA, #5 at Bagel Radio in San Francisco, #5 at KSCU in Fort Collins and #22 at SCAD in Atlanta GA!
"Down" and "Photograph" are also being featured on XM Radio's podcast as well as on "The Big Takeover" on Breakthrough Radio.
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Bio
Allen Orr and Ashley Proffitt met in the fall of 2000 in Atlanta and instantly became fans of each other’s music. Allen was in the band Igloo and Ashley was playing quiet solo shows. Over the next seven years the two of them each moved several times to different cities and countries, only to reconnect in New York. Allen had a bunch of songs, Ashley had a Wurlitzer and one thing led to another.
On September 15th of 2007, Allen and Ashley met in a rehearsal space in the Lower East Side, exactly seven years to the day after the two of them met for the first time in Atlanta. They bonded over a mutual love of Def Leppard’s Hysteria, and Anthem In was born.
Ashley knew Keith Vogelsong in Atlanta, where he was fronting The Blue Hour, a band she loved. Keith moved to New York to relocate the record label he runs, Goodnight Records, and about five minutes after he got off the plane, Ashley nabbed him as Anthem In’s bassist. Drummer Paul Petitto was procured by theft from the band he was playing with at the time in New York, Russian Vogue, and Anthem In was complete.
Recording for Anthem In’s debut album wrapped in January of 2008 and is out June 24 on Quiet/Loud Records.
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