Andre Costello and the Cool Minors Debut "Places"

The wordplay isn't unlike the play on emotion Andre Costello's music conjures: On the border of folk and rock, many of his songs dance between the upbeat and the melancholy, often landing on both at once. The Pittsburgh artist isn't so much a storyteller as picture-painter in his songwriting, calling to mind Neil Young and John Cale in his chords and lyrics, and Arthur Russell and Dirty Projectors' David Longstreth in his vocal textures. (Painting pictures isn't so unfamiliar toCostello, a graphic designer by trade.) Costello started The Cool Minors as a solo project, with its first album issued in 2011. The band solidified -- and hit its stride -- around 2012'sSummer's Best EP, which later found accompaniment in a "visual EP" Costello issued: a full EP's worth of music video. The Cool Minors are now real people -- bassist Matthew Fiorillo and drummer Nicholas Charters, in addition to Costello himself. Andre Costello and the Cool Minors have found local airplay up and down the dial -- from adult-alternative station WYEP to alt-rock radio at WXDX, and a live performance on Pittsburgh's longtime rock mainstay WDVE. Costello has shared the stage with bands likeAtlas Sound, David Wax Museum and Kelley Deal's R. Ring, and has been a featured guest at events like Pittsburgh DJ Randy Baumann's Thunderbird Ramble and WYEP's Holiday Hootenanny.

Andre Costello and the Cool Minors "Places"

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