Lackthereof

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Lackthereof
Origin Portland, Oregon, United States
Genres home recording, lo-fi
Labels Cut & Paste Collective, FILMguerrero, Barsuk
MembersDanny Seim
Past membersMatt Dabrowiak
Jim Fairchild
Nick Jaina
Paul Alcott
Dave Depper
Holly Hilden
Kevin Robinson
Anita Robinson
Tyler Poage
Website https://www.idealmines.com/discography
http://www.lackthereof.com/
MySpace Page

Lackthereof is the solo project of Danny Seim, a founding member of the Portland, Oregon-based band Menomena.

Contents

History

The first six Lackthereof albums were recorded at home and given out to Seim's friends on cassettes and CD-R's. In 2005, FILMguerrero released Christian the Christian, making it the first album in the Lackthereof discography to receive any sort of formal distribution. [1]

Seim took Lackthereof to a live setting for the first time in 2004, recruiting his then-wife Holly, friend Tyler Poage, and Kevin and Anita Robinson of the band Viva Voce. This lineup played one show at Portland's annual PDX Pop Now! Festival before disbanding.

The following year, Seim revived the project again, this time with the help of Holly, Matt Dabrowiak, and Paul Alcott of the band Dat'r.

To support the 2008 release of Your Anchor, Lackthereof performed several more shows in Portland with Alcott, Dabrowiak, Jim Fairchild (of All Smiles, Grandaddy and Modest Mouse), and Jon Ragel (of Boy Eats Drum Machine).

On October 13, 2009, Barsuk released the 20-track anthology A Lackthereof Retrospective 1998–2008, or I was a Christian Emo Twentysomething. The release compiles highlights from Seim's early home recording career, featuring songs that were never before released outside of cassettes and CD-R's given out to friends. [2] [3]

Discography

Albums

Split EPs

Other notable collaborations

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