Music
The best kept secret in music
Press
This band has no press
Discography
The Still Beat LP (2005)
Headphone Park EP (2004)
Photos
Feeling a bit camera shy
Bio
Harlan began when John Harlan Norris left his job at a Sotheby's warehouse in Spanish Harlem, NYC to spend time writing music andpainting in a mountain cabin in his native Kentucky. The cardboard
box of resulting four-track demos eventually became the Headphone Park EP. Norris then moved to Louisiana to pursue an MFA in painting. When he wasn't in the painting studio, he was in the recording studio putting together The Still Beat -- an entirely self-produced debut LP filled with lush guitars, keyboards, and Harlan's distinctive voice; a
lazy vibrato that delivers razor sharp lyrics that are sometimes heartfelt and sometimes cruel.
Now, Norris has assembled a band that injects the songs from The Still Beat with a new sense of energy and urgency. Harlan now includes Scott Campbell, Casey McAllister, John Bossier, and Britt King.
Harlan's music has been likened to bands such as Luna, The Go-Betweens, Wilco, The Replacements, and The Magnetic Fields.
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