Jeremy Enigk

...Megan Seling on Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:33 PM Next month, on November 17th, the Seattle Rock Orchestra (who've recently played with Jeremy Enigk and Grand Hallway), will perform Arcade Fire's Funeral in it's entirety. For the event, the...

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...and its indelible opening combination of introvert anthems "Seven" and "In Circles." The press-shy band broke up amid frontman Jeremy Enigk's very public conversion to born-again Christianity, re-formed for two albums in the late '90s (minus...

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...continued appeal of a band whose sound has proved to be remarkably enduring. Still, notoriously publicity-shy Enigk wrote in an e-mail that he's fundamentally uncomfortable with being seen as influencing today's crop of pop-punk acts. "It...

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...show. Yesterday covered religion, the media, and the band's break-up. Today: the band's musical roots and hardcore politics. Jeremy Enigk: I enjoyed all kinds of music as I was growing up, from Michael Jackson to The Police, but it wasn't...

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...takes the taut arrangements of Diary and drags them through a tar pit. Every movement is much heavier, sluggish even, as Jeremy Enigk's vocals drag themselves across the mix. It's this ear treacle that makes LP2 a touch more dated than...

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...appropriately emo for Friday night's show. Today: Religion, the media, and the roles both played in the band's break-up. Jeremy Enigk: Well, unfortunately I set it up that way in the letter I wrote, so I can't blame people for...

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...world of indie rock - was another head-scratcher. "Perhaps that sense of mystery added to our longevity, but I don't know," Enigk says. "I would like to think that it was simply our music and that there is a timelessness to it. " That...

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...angsty lyrics and tense arrangements earned the tag emo long before guyliner and Hot Topic entered the picture, and the band, led by Jeremy Enigk, whose mid-'90s conversion to Christianity alienated some, never really gave off a party vibe.

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...added a brutal earnestness, a triumphant vulnerability smeared all over the shivering-vein adenoidal howl of frontman Jeremy Enigk. The band's 1994 debut and generally acknowledged masterpiece, Diary, earns the right to use the Ultimate Emo...

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...and jangly-but-not-collegiate guitar chords show nods to Dischord, but it's the terse yet tender delivery of the lyrics from Jeremy Enigk that ultimately drew people in. "The waiting could crush my heart/ The tide breaks a wave of...

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