Savoir Adore

Brooklyn's Savoir Adore first surfaced in the mid-2000s with an atmospheric indie-pop sound built around layers of synthesizers and guitars. The group won early listeners through its 2009 release In the Wooded Forest, and from the time The Love That Remains appeared in 2016 onward the project has revolved around the dual vocalist-instrumentalists Paul Hammer and Lauren Zettler.

Paul Hammer, whose father is the noted keyboardist Jan Hammer, and Deidre Muro met as N.Y.U. students and launched Savoir Adore in 2007. The duo placed the band on the Cantora roster—the same label that housed the neo-psych outfit MGMT—and issued the EP The Adventures of Mr. Pumpernickel and the Girl with Animals in Her Throat. Live performances quickly attracted attention as Hammer and Muro expanded the arrangements with an additional ensemble. Their first full-length, In the Wooded Forest, arrived in 2009; three years afterward they delivered the '80s dream-pop-infused Our Nature.

While work on the next album was still in its opening phase, Muro and Hammer went separate ways. Hammer then recorded with a series of guest vocalists—Leah Hayes, Lauren Zettler, and Winslow Bright among them—yielding the third studio album The Love That Remains and its single “Giants.” After that release, Hammer made Zettler a permanent member on vocals and keyboards. Savoir Adore issued Full Bloom in 2018.