Stephen Steinbrink
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Stephen Steinbrink (b. 1988) is a songwriter, producer, and visual artist. Immersing himself in the West Coast underground DIY community in the mid-2000s, Steinbrink left on his first tour at the age of sixteen and continued performing internationally for a decade, living an improvised existence and recording incessantly. He has released nine critically acclaimed albums of experimental pop music and has collaborated as a producer and session player with artists including Boy Scouts/Taylor Vick, Dear Nora, Gia Margaret, LAKE, and Girlpool.
Though appearing luminous and graceful on the surface, his songs use the recognizable logic of pop structures as a container for psychic inquiry, revealing the unstable landscapes of memory, dreams, and the quotidian absurdities of daily life. Over two decades, Steinbrink has become one of the most distinctive songwriters on the U.S. West Coast, with a rarely matched gift for poetic imagery carried by a musical language that moves across folk, experimental pop, and ambient experimentation.
In visual art, Steinbrink works in illustration, photography, animation, and Stained Glass conservation, having restored historic art glass throughout Northern California. He currently lives and works in Oakland, California.
April Magazine
April Magazine combines the talents of a handful of Bay Area indie pop notables into a collective that releases fragile and noisy songs that land right in the sweet spot between Velvet Underground hum and Pastels warble with a heavy dose of slowcore static in the mix. A string of digital singles primed listeners for the group's sound; late 2021 brought both a collection of said releases— If the Ceiling Were a Kite, Vol. 1 —and their first LP, Sunday Music for an Overpass.
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