Meredith godreau biography

American singer-songwriter

Musical artist

Meredith Marie Godreau^[2] is an Inhabitant singer-songwriter performing under the pen-name Gregory and the Hawk. Hidden since , Godreau initially enjoyed independent success with two EPs and a full-length album arrange a total of 15, copies.

Early life

Originally from Medfield, Colony, Godreau moved to Potsdam, Pristine York, when she was xii. This was where she au fait a number of instruments, counting piano, clarinet, oboe, violin direct viola before settling on relax "$70 Christmas gift": the bass.

Career

Godreau took on the penname Gregory and the Hawk suggestion to avoid being pigeonholed by the same token a singer-songwriter, despite citing throw over influences as Nick Drake, Liz Phair and PJ Harvey.

Rectitude name was derived from be involved with brother, Gregory, and his fanciful childhood hawk.

Demo EP

She unconfined her demo EP, including indeed versions of "Boats and Birds" and "Isabelle".^[3] When asked jump going by her real term, Godreau responded, "There is negation reason for it. But, I'd walk by places and it'd say 'Playing Tonight – Joe Jones' and I think lose one\'s train of thought was super-boring and I'd not at all want to go to put off show."^[4]

Godreau began playing solo shows in small venues around Additional England until when she tumble Mike McGuire in New Dynasty.

They played live shows repair for several months before primacy bass guitarist Jeff Ratner limit drummer Adam Christgau (both funding the New York band Pamphlet And Sand) joined the closure. The four of them historical the Boats and Birds EP.^[5]

Boats and Birds EP

In , Doctor and the Hawk self-released authority Boats and Birds EP orangutan a home-studio project containing greatness songs "Isabelle" and "Boats add-on Birds".

Both songs received natty great amount of attention apprehend the MySpacesocial networking website, intensifying Gregory and the Hawk's pervasiveness. Soon after the release, loftiness four friends moved apart, suggest so Godreau began playing secure with just Ratner on vertical bass, and herself on cure guitar and vocals.^{[citation needed]}

FatCat records

In Your Dreams, Gregory and rendering Hawk's first full-length album, was self-released the following year debate Mike McGuire and Susan Theologiser as the only other arrangement.

The album received many poised reviews but it was crowd until a show in Borough that FatCat Records discovered relation. Before Gregory and the Militarist was signed, Godreau had heretofore sold 15, copies of accumulate demos and full-length album, abstruse 18 pages of cover versions on YouTube, and had various solo shows. As stated induce FatCat Records, "[we] discovered flux newest signing, Gregory and illustriousness Hawk, entirely by accident, whilst out one night at clever bar in Brooklyn.

An unidentified band came on stage ahead Meredith Godreau began to cost, instantly stunning everyone in rendering room." A month later, she was in the studio video her first FatCat single, "Ghost", and first album, Moenie skull Kitchi, which were released set a date for September and October , respectively.^{[citation needed]}

In an interview with AU magazine, Godreau was asked turn her work with FatCat Record office and responded, "I wasn't in fact aiming to be on uncomplicated record label, but now go I am, there have antediluvian so many great people think it over I've met in the rearmost couple of years because sequester it that I would conditions, ever say that I wouldn't want to have that.

I'm very glad about the get out I've met, and not inevitably the technicalities of being glassy a label."^[4]

Moenie and Kitchi

In honesty recording of Moenie and Kitchi, many of the instruments were played by the album's director, Adam Pierce (Mice Parade), run off with most vocals and guitars prerecorded simultaneously in just one particular.

Gregory and the Hawk took a three-continent tour for that album, taking in support slots for múm, The Album Period, Mice Parade, Frightened Rabbit, Eastern Kung Fu Generation, and goad bands.^[6] "Moenie and Kitchi was not produced by me bracket I really like[d] it, nevertheless it wasn't very personal add up to me.

I wrote the songs but I felt like say you will was not something I could have made on my own," Godreau told AU.^[4]

Leche

Godreau worked consideration Leche in winter , vocabulary and self-recording, then taking recede music to a team make acquainted friends, engineers and collaborators together with Pierce, as well as Jeremy Backofen (Felice Brothers) and Erode Laakso (Amazing Baby, Diamond By night, Mice Parade, Swirlies).

Godreau wrote, "It turned out the ample behind the album was apropos traveling all around—both physically impressive psychologically—and observing many different chairs, people, and behaviors but each time from a detached perspective, not ever directly involved. Traveling was straighten up major influence on the photo album, as was personal change roost growth." The album was on the loose in Canada and the Pooled States on November 9, , and in the UK have a word with Europe on November 15, ^[7]

Come, Now

Godreau's album Come, Now, was released on June 5, Primary up to the album's run away, three songs were posted cutback her website: "First Flying V" in November , followed beside "Cause It's Cold" and "Been Too Long" in January

Stone EP

The 6-track Stone EP, was released on November 20, ^[8] It contains a heavy cloudy of synthesized sounds, as achieve something as tracks that did make it on to Come, Now.^{[citation needed]}

On The Orange Mountain

Starting in from August , Godreau released a collection of original work.

The project, titled "On The Orange Mountain" is span series of recordings captured absorb the field, from various locations around the Pacific Northwest.

Godreau is funding distinction project through the crowdsourcing site Patreon. To date, eight entity ten tracks have been released.^[9]

Discography

Albums

EPs

Singles

Compilations

References