Beige

from Vancouver BC
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About

Beige

Label: independent
since circa 2001
understated, atmospheric, wry, jazzy with off-kilter pop leanings, but sometimes not.
some beige pieces have words, others don’t.
the beige complement most interiors.
"The Beige's wonderfully designed CD is home to a collection of textured, rootsy folk-pop music heavy on the ambient atmosphere...a brilliant level of depth to the recording...Ladies and gents, meet your new favourite atmospheric roots-pop band." -- Indieville.com

"A record that fuses popular and experimental forms into a coherent whole is a rare thing, and this is a record of rare beauty." -- Americana UK

"The Beige is a new musical force in Vancouver" -- Marke Andrews, Vancouver Sun.

"A gorgeously spacious thing.... as melodic and lyrically striking as Wilco at its most incisive--and more overtly catchy." -- Ken Eisner, The Georgia Straight.

"Let’s not try too hard to categorize the Beige. We’ll just say that Maddocks writes damn good songs that allow the band to take all sorts of twists and turns through interesting corners of the sonic spectrum." --Eden Munro, Vue Weekly

"The result is a disc of literate roots-pop for urban dwellers, with a we-get-there-when-we-do attitude that coalesces into dusty, lovely ballads." -- Shawn Conner, Vancouver Courier.

"the beige have managed to work their mellowing magic on me. I'm finding it very difficult to shit all over them." -- the Nerve
Broken Up

Community Events

Last Lineup

Rick Maddocks
vocals/guitar/miscellany
1998 - The End
Jon Wood
tenor guitar/lap steel
1998 - The End
Andrew Arida
keyboards
1998 - The End
Mark Haney
double bass
2005 - The End
Geoff Gilliard
drums
2009 - The End

Band Articles

The Beige Album Review
The Beige El Ángel Exterminador by Nathan Stafford Sophomore release from local exploratory jazz/pop project El Ángel Exterminador is a CD I can listen to all day long. The vocals are nice, but not in-your-face, and not really use...
Published by: The Skinny Magazine
Author: Nathan Stafford

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