Product Description Brooklyn duo The Quavers are T. Griffin and Catherine McRae with frequent collaboators Dennis Cronin and Bruce Cawdron. They coax a luminous sound out of decayed samplers, walkmans, vibraphonette, footpedal loopers, tape echo violin and homespun harmonies. Like a space-age Carter Family, they weave low-tech electronics around songs sturdy enough to stand up even if the power goes out. They call it "porch techno". Over the last two years T. Griffin and Catherine McRae spent a lot of time packed into a black 1993 Saturn with a trunk full of instruments and electronics, and no AC. They were doing a long, ramshackle, side-road tour for the 2004 record The Sea Won't Take Long which they released under the name T. Griffin Coraline. When they got back to Brooklyn and opened the trunk, they found a trove of songs along with the wires, dead batteries, samplers and amps. These songs became Lit By Your Phone, an album full of haunted samples, twin vocals, and narratives gathered on the side of the road. McRae sings, and plays violin, sampler and percussion. Griffin sings and plays guitar, samplers, keyboards and percussion. It was recorded at Shiny Little Studios off 4th Ave in Brooklyn, New York, with additional recording in Bruce's living room in Montreal, QC. They're joined by Dennis Cronin (Vitamin-D), who adds spare flashes of vibraphonette, lap steel and trumpet, and by Montrealer Bruce Cawdron (Esmerine) who fits his Mo Tucker toms and oceanic cymbal washes around the sampled rhythms. Review "...moody and enchanting... The pair s spare tunes combine plaintive minor-key melodies... and tight, yearing harmonies with touches of electronica thrown into the m ix. Both musicians bring a deep and eclectic musical background to their songwriting; between the two of them they ve worked with indie filmmaker Jem Cohen, avant-garde theater director Richard Maxwell and the cult singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt, among others." --The New Yorker"....Lit by Your Phone, the Quavers new moody and texturally rich album, places moody Americana folk under blacklit, lo-fi electronica." --The Village Voice
