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Project Film

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States
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"Record review: Project Film - 'Chicago'"

"The result is a charming, dreamy debut full of layers and turns. “Minneapolis” eases in slow with a hazy ambiance that's soon cut into by clean acoustic guitar and spatters of drums. Almost immediately, the track evokes that distance between its eponymous city and the album's. The 400 miles are tangible and heavy, like we're watching them glide by through the glass of a train window. “Minneapolis far and near, will your buildings please appear?” asks McAllister of his home, crafting a sweet (but never cloying) nostalgia." -Sasha Geffen, Windy City Rock - Windy City Rock


"Record review: Project Film - 'Chicago'"

"The result is a charming, dreamy debut full of layers and turns. “Minneapolis” eases in slow with a hazy ambiance that's soon cut into by clean acoustic guitar and spatters of drums. Almost immediately, the track evokes that distance between its eponymous city and the album's. The 400 miles are tangible and heavy, like we're watching them glide by through the glass of a train window. “Minneapolis far and near, will your buildings please appear?” asks McAllister of his home, crafting a sweet (but never cloying) nostalgia." -Sasha Geffen, Windy City Rock - Windy City Rock


"Project Film Thrives with Chicago"

"Project Film will kick off a brief West Coast tour in a couple of weeks. But they won’t leave without a send off - the band will perform a show at the Empty Bottle Saturday, July 16, opening for headliners Austra and supporting act Cult of Youth. And when they return, they’ll celebrate with a ‘welcome back’ show Sunday, August 14 at the Whistler. Also performing will be folk-rockers Nelken, and in typical Whistler fashion this show is free." -Chicagoist - Chicagoist


"Project Film Thrives with Chicago"

"Project Film will kick off a brief West Coast tour in a couple of weeks. But they won’t leave without a send off - the band will perform a show at the Empty Bottle Saturday, July 16, opening for headliners Austra and supporting act Cult of Youth. And when they return, they’ll celebrate with a ‘welcome back’ show Sunday, August 14 at the Whistler. Also performing will be folk-rockers Nelken, and in typical Whistler fashion this show is free." -Chicagoist - Chicagoist


"Kevin Grego's Top 5"

"Originally meant to be the soundtrack to a film project, this release is undeniably rough around the edges in the best possible way." -Kevin Grego, Chicago Independent Radio Project DJ - CHIRP Radio


"Kevin Grego's Top 5"

"Originally meant to be the soundtrack to a film project, this release is undeniably rough around the edges in the best possible way." -Kevin Grego, Chicago Independent Radio Project DJ - CHIRP Radio


"Project Film - Chicago"

"It all sounds so easy that it can’t come from any place but an innocent one." -Ross Meyerson, Loud Loop Press - Loud Loop Press


"Project Film - Chicago"

"It all sounds so easy that it can’t come from any place but an innocent one." -Ross Meyerson, Loud Loop Press - Loud Loop Press


"Project Fim - Chicago"

“Chicago is a guy recording alone, self-producing, in a cramped Chi-town one-room flat, but it sounds fully ripened. OK, Sam McAllister uses backing vocals from his Minneapolis high school pal Megan Frestedt to continuous advantage; her singing with and against him throughout evokes simple, sweet-sounding, childlike wonder, making Chicago’s Chicago feel less lonely.” - Jack Rabid, Big Takeover - Big Takeover


"Project Fim - Chicago"

“Chicago is a guy recording alone, self-producing, in a cramped Chi-town one-room flat, but it sounds fully ripened. OK, Sam McAllister uses backing vocals from his Minneapolis high school pal Megan Frestedt to continuous advantage; her singing with and against him throughout evokes simple, sweet-sounding, childlike wonder, making Chicago’s Chicago feel less lonely.” - Jack Rabid, Big Takeover - Big Takeover


Discography

'Chicago' CD (Tandem Shop) - Released November 9th, 2010

Second LP to be released in 2013. Recorded with Brett Bullion of Dark Dark Dark, Jeremy Hansen of Tapes N Tapes, and Jef Sundquist of Tungsten.

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Project Film began as an idea meant mainly for instrumental tracks, like those found in the soundtracks of films (as heard on the track “Ink”). Songwriter and Tandem Shop owner, Sam McAllister, would record tracks in his parent’s basement in a small suburb of Minneapolis, MN and place them in a folder on his computer titled “Project Film,” thus the name. Horrible lack of name originality aside, the idea then grew to become a composition of two friends from high school, McAllister and close friend Megan Frestedt, who both moved to Chicago to attend school.

Potentially disrupting sleeping neighbors, Project Film’s debut record, Chicago, was mostly recorded in McAllister’s small studio apartment during the fall and winter months of late 2009 and early 2010. McAllister, who self-produced the record, is responsible for the majority of the writing and plays all the instruments on the band’s debut. Frestedt sings backing vocals, and plays keyboards in live performances.

Balancing between ethereal and dark and sweet and soulful, sometimes even strikingly righteous, Chicago is a mostly-happy-but-on-occasion-a-little-grim indie-pop record featuring ten tracks about skinny jeans, drug trafficking, and the intransience of the entire city of Minneapolis, MN. And just for good measure: growing up, art school, and the trials of starting a new life in a new city.

Chicago was released November 9th, 2010 via Tandem Shop. The band is currently finishing their next album.