Intimate, dark, sexy pop music. Almost-spoken intense lyrics complimented by unusual guitar textures, driving bass and heart-felt drumming.

9 MP3 Songs
POP: Pop Underground, ROCK: 90's Rock



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Comments from the composer, Hendrik XIX:

Only now in the afterglow of finishing nineteen's debut, "A Cradle for Your Soul," can I really reflect on the music that we recorded. I intended the record to have a quiet loneliness to it--like a beautiful woman sipping a martini in an empty bar.

The record curves up in energy at the beginning, songs becoming increasingly dramatic over time. Just LP-length, the first piece, "Moon Song" compares the late sixties conquest of the Moon with the conquest of women. The song's sparse texture adds a shimmering acoustic guitar only after the first melancholy chorus. The next tune, "How Much?" touches the listener with a dark, but poppy sound, expanding the texture with electric guitars. With "Cradle," the listener submerges in the sticky, sexy world of nineteen: slow, grinding grooves, whispered voices and enticing lyrics. In many ways "Cradle" is my favorite tune on the record. The cadence of the thunderous kick-drum against the distorted bass still excites me every time I play it. Maybe my comfort in the song comes from the fact that the song is really a Blues, the music that I learned to play when I becoming a musician. The bridge of the tune shows off Chris' (guitarist) harmonies and the band's control over volume, tempo and intensity.

"Twitch," I'm told, is radio friendly. I wrote the lyrics when I was in high school, submitting it as a poem to the school literary magazine. The poem was banned for being offensive. It's ironic that it would end up being the song that represents us on the radio.

When I wrote the songs on this album, I hoped that people would share the music with people with whom they are close. The record should be listened to the way we recorded it: in the dark with a glass of dark red wine or fine tequila in your hand. Thank you for listening.