Biography
Formed in San Francisco around the dance post-punk sound, Every Move a Picture first coalesced with vocalist and guitarist Brent Messenger, bassist Joey Fredrick, and drummer Dan Aquino at its core. Messenger and Fredrick, who had been childhood friends, spent the early 2000s performing together in multiple projects that occasionally included Aquino, yet the band itself did not officially launch until the start of 2004. Portland transplant Allen Davis completed the lineup on guitar and keyboards after responding to a Craigslist advertisement. Shortly thereafter the group tracked three songs inside a friend’s rehearsal space, and those energetic numbers quickly earned rotation on local stations plus airplay from KROQ’s Rodney Bingenheimer in Los Angeles. Once the material reached the United Kingdom and Radio One, the quartet began supporting hometown bills by the Kaiser Chiefs and Louis XIV. Generating considerable attention at 2005’s SXSW solely on the strength of those initial recordings, the band issued the five-song EP Blink and You’ll Miss It, which in turn secured a debut live session on Los Angeles’ hip KCRW and placed several tracks in video games as well as the television series One Tree Hill. Before any official overseas release materialized, Every Move a Picture performed its first United Kingdom shows to an overwhelming reception. London-based label Something in Construction subsequently pressed a 7" pairing “Signs of Life” and “Chemical Burns,” which sold out within the week of its appearance. The group sustained its touring schedule with a slot at the 2005 Reading and Leeds festivals plus June support dates alongside the Futureheads across the United States. It also put out the four-song EP Opposition Party, directing all proceeds to the Rainforest Action Network. Every Move a Picture ultimately delivered its long-awaited full-length debut Heart=Weapon on V2 in July 2006 and backed the album that fall while on the road with Electric Six.
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