Sixteens' new
full-length album, "Into the Gold Wave of Future-Non-Rip-Off!" will
be out on Hungry Eye Records this winter 2005/6!!!
Also, keep your eyes way out for the 12" 2-song split with ENTERTAINME.nt
(Atlanta, GA)!
shows
San Francisco, CA @ THEEEEE HEMLOCKKKK TAVERRRRNNN, OCTOBER 31st HALLOWEEN SHOW, Polk St, San Francisco, CA 94101
biography
Sixteens is presently Kristen Louise and Veuve Pauli, with the occasional appearance of guest musicians, performance artists, photographers, projectionists. Originally based in San Francisco, in the last two years' energetic concentration they have become an international band with a support base in Spain, Italy, France, Germany, U.K., Poland, Holland, U.S.A., not to mention other countries where they have yet to project.
Their supporters span a broad range of the post punk musical spectrum. Electro, Deathrock, Synth punk/pop, Minimal electronic, Art damaged, Darkwave, Gothic, Bored E.B. Mers, early eighties casualties, and Indie rockers.
After touring
Europe twice in the last year (2004-2005) they are now based in Berlin.
Their music has the character of a nicely composed collage where one can
see the jagged scissor marks along the edges of transposed magazine paper.
reviews
"Here they
come, making a noise like a marching band let loose in a telephone exchange,
all stomps and clangs and the sound of electronics coming unsoldered at
the seams. Sixteens are a (mostly) electronic garage band, devoted to the
gentle act of conjuring up a right old racket from their array of black
boxes and wires, and they do it with such aplomb you could almost believe
that EBM had never been invented."
Uncle Nemesis (www.starvox.net)
"In my head
Starwars would have been scored with bands like the Sixteens. I can only
see it making Darth Vader even more bad-ass, plus no music performed by
Gungans or Ewoks could survive in such a turbulent and dark musical environment."
Swung By Seraphim (www.wildhunt.org)
"The Sixteens
use lo-fi electronics and deliberate, drasticly simplistic beats to lay
the foundation for grating keyboard feedback turned twisted-disco, serving
up an un-nerving and alien soundscape."
(www.deathrock.com)
"Their sound
is dark with references to bands like Christian Death and Suicide. Thus
expect electronic garage wave doom."
(www.enfant-terrible.nl)
"...no one
else delivers synthetic paranoia and alienation the way the Sixteens do."
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