Artist: Howie Beck
Genre(s):
Pop
Discography:
Howie Beck
Year: 2004
Tracks: 13
Canadian singer/songwriter Howie Beck plays pop music that balances a melancholy undertow with the bright irrepressibility of wondrously crafted melodies, and the result has made him an international phenomenon well-nigh in nastiness of himself. Toronto-based Beck made his first base record album in 1997; the home-recorded and self-released Pop and Crash was in the first place made piece Beck was stuck in the menage getting over a typeface of kissing disease. While Pop and Crash didn't retrieve much of an audience, its reception bucked up Beck to try on once again, and his secondment album, another homemade exploit highborn Hollow, fared significantly better. Like Drink down and Crash, 1999's Hole was released through Beck's possess 13 Clouds imprint, merely a fistful of good reviews and enthusiastic news of backtalk brought the album to the attention of a British independent judge, Easy! Tiger Records, and their 2001 reprint of the album became a lowly hit in the U.K., and helped cattle ranch his name in Canada and the United States.
Presently Beck was sharing concert stages with the likes of Aimee Mann, Interpol, Stereophonics, and Josh Rouse, and his songs were licensed for use on such TV shows as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Felicity. However, the events of September 11, 2001, threw Beck into a deep imprint, and when Easy! Tiger went out of business following the suicide of label chief Wyndham Wallace, Beck's vocation went into neutral. Beck made guest appearances on albums by Hayden and Sarah Harmer, just it wasn't until 2004 that his side by side album, plainly called Howie Beck and at one time once again recorded at home plate (though its luxuriant level-headed would lead you to conceive of other than), at last appeared. Howie Beck was released in Canada through 13 Clouds, and in 2006 Ever Records struck a deal with Beck and reissued the album in the United States and Europe.
