Actors&Actresses

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Actors&Actresses
Origin Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Genres Post-rock
downtempo
Shoegaze
Years active2005–2015
LabelsThe Mylene Sheath
Website Official Website
MembersScott Bennett: Bass/Vox
Dave Sumner: Drums/Media Samples
Andrew Schiller: Guitar

Actors&Actresses is a three-piece band from Kansas City, Missouri. Their music is characterized with having ambient guitars and downtempo vocals.

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History

Formed in 2005, Actors&Actresses quickly made an impact in the Midwest region. Their first album was a self-released EP titled We Love Our Enemy. Sold at local stores and over the internet, the CD caught the interest of touring post-rock band Caspian (band), who then introduced members to the owners and operators of the record label The Mylene Sheath during South by Southwest in 2008. Actors&Actresses were added to the label after a show in Kansas City in August 2008. [1] The group went on to record their first full length which was released on LP, CD and through digital networks in June 2009 to positive reviews. [2] [3]

Instrumentation

The band achieves a unique sound by playing the bass and guitar in alternate tunings, neither of which are tuned to standard A440.

Scott Bennett plays a Rickenbacker 4001C electric bass tuned to B F# B F#, and often uses a capo to further alter the tuning.

Andrew Schiller plays a Paul Reed Smith McCarty Standard model guitar tuned to drop D tuning further down tuned another half step to C#.

David Sumner plays custom C&C Drums with over-sized tom shells and an 18x24 inch bass drum.

Discography

We Love Our Enemy EP – Self Released – CD (2005)
Arrows – The Mylene Sheath – LP/CD (2009)
We Love Our Enemy EP vinyl re-issue – The Mylene Sheath - LP/CD (2011)
ARC – The Mylene Sheath – LP (2011)
Pyre – Self Released – LP (2015)

Compilation Appearances
SunSeaSky Records – Winter Online Sampler (2006)
Dandercroft Magazine – Spring Compilation – CD (2006)
Exploding In Sound – In Case of Evacuation – (2010)
Present Magazine – Mailbox #49 (2010)
Pop Up Records – Songs of Farewell & Departure: A Tribute to Hum – CD (2011)

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References

  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-08-28. Retrieved 2010-02-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "Actors & Actresses – Arrows". 17 November 2009.
  3. http://www.shortandsweetnyc.com/2009/09/music-reviews-krantz-carlock-lefebvre.html%5B%5D