| Saxon Shore | |
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Genres | Post rock Instrumental rock Ambient Shoegaze |
| Years active | 2001–present |
| Labels | Burnt Toast Vinyl (2003-Present) Broken Factory Records (2001-2002) |
| Associated acts | Warm Ghost Brightest Feathers General Soporus |
| Website | Official website Official MySpace |
| Members | |
| Oliver Chapoy Matt Doty Steve Roessner Will Stichter Matt Stone |
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| Past members | |
| Josh Tillman Zach Tillman |
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Saxon Shore is an American post-rock band consisting of members from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Brooklyn, New York. The group has thus far released five albums: one packaged as an EP (Luck Will Not Save Us...) and four as full-lengths. Earlier records featured only five to seven songs, while more recent albums have had several more.
Saxon Shore's overall sound has been compared to Caspian, Explosions in the Sky, Joy Wants Eternity, This Will Destroy You, and God is an Astronaut.
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Saxon Shore formed in 2001 as the joint project of guitarist Matthew Doty and drummer Josh Tillman. The two wrote several songs that, in time, were recorded for the duo's debut album Be a Bright Blue, released on Doty's very own imprint, Broken Factory Records. Tillman's brother Zach was recruited for bass duties during the studio process and found himself becoming a full-fledged member.
After a host of tours across the United States (in which the band recruited three separate bassists), Doty moved to Seattle and later exchanged four-tracks with Josh Tillman, who was living in upstate New York at the time. Studio time reserved in Atlanta eventually blossomed into their next effort, Four Months of Darkness. Traveling musician Matt Stone contributing on guitar and like Zach before him, joined, making the group a four-piece. The album marked a change in Saxon Shore's sound from the light indie pop of Be a Bright Blue to the more melodic Four Months.
Stone and Stichter, together with Will's brother Mike and friend Stephen Hoffmann, have released two ambient/downtempo albums on Burnt Toast Vinyl under the name of Soporus.[1] Doty and Chapoy are currently making plans to put out music as Brightest Feathers,[2] having already remixed songs by Caroline and Faunts. Chapoy is also a member of Warm Ghost [3] Lastly, drummer Roessner is a freelance Grammy winning recording engineer [4] based in Rochester, New York where he operates a small studio called Calibrated Recording[5]. Roessner is also a member of the chiptune band Revengineers [6], based in Rochester, NY.