Biography
Reading Rainbow derived its moniker from an affectionate nod to the 1980s PBS children’s series of the same name and maintained a MySpace page explicitly honoring the show’s host at www.myspace.com/levarmotherfuckingburton. The project surfaced on the fringes of the lo-fi indie wave toward the close of 2009 after Philadelphia transplants Robbie Garcia and Sarah Everton assembled the duo from the remnants of Forensic Teens, a Richmond, VA no wave band distinguished by its screaming intensity. When the original drummer abandoned a scheduled performance, Everton—who had been generating sounds on a circuit-bent keyboard despite her limited instrumental background—took over the drum chair herself and mastered a bare-bones setup limited to snare and floor tom within roughly two weeks. The pair then adopted a deliberately minimal approach saturated with heavy reverb and analog warmth, committing tracks to tape on a Tascam 388 eight-track reel-to-reel. Their first offerings comprised an EP of raw demos alongside the vinyl LP Mystical Participation, after which they set their sights on issuing Songs to Sing in early 2010.
Albums
Singles
