Marius Atherton
Marius Atherton has been described as making THEE OH SEES sound like HENRY PURCELL, and Henry Purcell like SUICIDE. He should be classified somewhere between MATHIEU BOOGAERTS and ALAN VEGA. JULIEN GASC, THE SPACE LADY, and baroque music have also been mentioned to try to give an idea of what his compositions sound like. He himself more prosaically quote ANNE SYLVESTRE, BACH, PERGOLESI, and FRANÇOIS COUPERIN as his main influences.
In short, this is music hard to categorize, even if some haven't hesitated to label it as "baroque synth pop." It doesn't really do it justice, if not downright misleading. Baroque synth pop? Like ARMY OF LOVERS? Come on, let's be serious! Marius Atherton and his music have nothing to do with two notes looping on a synth played by a hand poking out of a ruffled lace sleeve!
Let’s talk background... In Paris, Marius Atherton studied jazz and musicology. In San Francisco, he took guitar lessons. In Oakland, he was active in the garage-punk scene, playing with WE ARE THE MEN and THE BEEKEEPERS.
Back in France, he was the music curator for the Festival de la Cour Denis in Nièvres (between Bourges and Dijon). He has also performed in various more or less obscure international bands: STRATOCASTORS, DRY ERASE, WARM SWORDS, VAGUESS, GOLDEN Q, NICK WHEELDON'S DEMON HOST, TROTSKI NAUTIQUE...
