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Bio
Creaky Boards is the name Andrew Hoepfner has given to all of his music
since moving to New York City at the beginning of 2004. The band structure has
shapeshifted, but the sound is always joyful.
Creaky Boards' sophmore LP, "Brooklyn is Love", a reverb drenched escapade of
vocal harmony, drum booms, clicking castenets, and lavish arrangements, is
almost as weird and enchanting as the city that gave birth to it. Released November
2008, it is their best work to date.
Creaky Boards toured America as a full band, lying on
mattresses in the back of a rented cargo van that turned out to not have
any seats. Andrew then toured Europe solo, playing creative
sparse sets on his glockenspiel and laptop. In 2009, Creaky Boards revisited
Europe as the full foursome. The
Boards spend most of their time jamming good in New York City.
Where's the Sunshine, their first LP, was released in 2005. Over the years,
there's also been a slew of other shimmering home recordings released upon
ye olde internet.
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Upon Songwriter/pianist Andrew Hoepfner's Greyhound arrival at Port
Authority, Creaky Boards began as a whimsical folk-punk duo alongside lanky
daydreaming trumpeter Jason Benjamin, in the cold winter of 2004. In an avalanche
of theatrical subway performances and electric club shows, the bright eyed
Midwestern boys were quickly embraced by the East Village antifolk scene due
to their knack for melody, their endearingly honest delivery, and their
eccentrically jerky body movements. By summer, Creaky Boards was opening
up for the Trachtenberg Family Slideshow Players at the Knitting Factory,
and Jeffrey Lewis at the 2004 Summer Antifolk Fest.
Migrating friends from Hoepfner's underage punk days in Michigan trickled
east, causing the band's size to expand, and beloved vocal harmonies
and walls of sound to take form.
Due to frontman Andrew Hoepfner's chronic hand pain,
Creaky Boards almost vanished towards the end of 2005. Thanks to
the friendship in the band and Hoepfner's gnawing appetite to create,
Creaky Boards reemerged a year later, choosing to keep playing through
the pain.
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