Pregnant (band)

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Pregnant
OriginPlacerville, California, U.S.
Genresfolk, electronic, experimental
Years active2008–present
Labels Mush Records
Porter Records
Members
  • Daniel Trudeau
  • Luis Gutierrez
  • Ben Lewis
  • Nick Cowman
Past members
  • Michael RJ Saalman
  • Brynley Stoner
  • Sean Hayashi
  • Styles Munson
  • Molly Raney
  • Daniel Ramirez
  • Matt Trudeau

Pregnant is an American musical project founded by Daniel Trudeau in Placerville, California in 2004. [1] Their sound has been described as "mutant pop sound collages". [2] They have released music on Porter Records and Mush Records [3]

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Career

Pregnant started as a solo project consisting only of Daniel Trudeau. The first album, Ike Wimin, was released on KDVS Recordings in 2009. The second album, Liquidation on Swans (2010) was produced and mixed by Andy Morin of Death Grips. [4] Pregnant continued as a solo project for the albums Regional Music (2010) and Life Hard: I Try [5] (2011).

For their fifth album, Pottery Mill (2013), Pregnant became a duo with the addition of Daniel's brother Matt Trudeau. [6] Each subsequent album has featured different band members and guest musicians, with Daniel Trudeau being the only consistent member.

Pregnant has been active in cassette culture throughout their career, releasing EPs, remix albums and collaborations exclusively on cassette. [7] In 2014 Daniel started a project called Your Song, in which people could donate $7 or more through the band's Bandcamp page for him to write, record and release a song about them. He commissioned over 100 songs for this project, which were released as compilations through independent cassette labels. [8]

Albums

Cassettes

Collaboration

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