| Genres: |
Pop / Rock
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| Descriptive "tags": |
post-rock • electronic • experimental • instrumental • indie • rock • indie rock
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| Decades Active: |
1990s
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2000s
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Biography
This esoteric Washington, DC, USA-based trio has appeared in press photographs disguised as sweat drenched sports stars and strait-laced politicians. Philip Manley (guitars, bass, keyboards), Nathan Means (bass/keyboards) and Sebastian Thomson (drums/percussion), who formed the band in 1992, take a similarly playful approach to the creation of their predominantly instrumental music. Trans Am have previously professed a genuine fondness for - and claimed the influence of - veteran rock band ZZ Top and certainly much of their output unashamedly rocks. Alongside their mighty riffs, however, Trans Am draw on the detritus of electronica, disrupting songs with the anaemic clicks of electro and crackles of static and distortion. Trans Am’s immersion in Kraftwerk’s machine-pop (made explicit on 1999’s Futureworld) lends the band a robotic man-machine aesthetic that allows this integration of keyboards and drum-machines into their...
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