Vocalist Hrishikesh Hirway launched the One AM Radio in 1999, shaping its dark, melancholy dream pop aesthetic. Although assorted collaborators participated across the years, the endeavor largely continued as Hirway’s one-man project. While enrolled at Yale, he cut several EPs with Ted Leo and the like. In spring 2000 he met another Yale student, violin player Jane Yakowitz, who contributed to a 7" he was preparing for Troubleman Unlimited. The pair connected personally and professionally. Yakowitz performed live with Hirway, and within a year she joined the One AM Radio as a permanent member. The Hum of the Electric Air arrived in July 2002 as the band’s first proper album. Two years later Level Plane released the more expansive and lush A Name Writ in Water, followed in early 2005 by the remix album On the Shore of the Wide World. The One AM Radio made its Dangerbird Records debut in February 2007 with the self-produced This Too Will Pass and returned in 2011 with the lushly produced Heaven Is Attached by a Slender Thread.
Away, Into the LightThe Hum of the Electric Air! · 2002The Hum of the Electric Air!3:36
FiresThis Too Will Pass · 2007This Too Will Pass3:19
