Group energy is what powers indie-pop outfit michelletheband, alongside the restless buzz of their home city New York. They gave us the lowdown on their latest release 'After Dinner We Talk Dreams':
This is one of the first things said on a Zoom call with the six members of, a New York City-based pop group. To clarify, no one in the band is actually named Michelle . But as Sofia D’Angelo, a vocalist and songwriter, points out, their collective affinity for the Mayor of Flavortown is one element that unites them.
wisely pushes the group’s vocalists to the front of its R&B-inspired, keyboard-heavy dance-pop, letting each singer reside in her respective musical space. But not for long. On standout single “Mess U Made,” gorgeous harmonies arrive on each chorus as musical support, creating a mesmerizing wall-of-sound vocal effect. The bread has been broken. The collective spirit is strong.
“It was very much like just capturing a moment,” Kilgore says. “We did a couple of takes in Julian's bedroom with that mic right after we wrote it.That moment also called for them to choose a name for this “summer project,” as Lockard says the group considered it at the time. “The story we tell is that we just wanted to name ourselves after a singular femme name, like all the icons: Brandy and Beyoncé and Rihanna and Adele.
, and I knew who wrote what song, but it's kind of like meeting your favorite artists for the first time,” D’Angelo says. “But these are people that you worked on the same project with.”,” still one of their most-streamed tracks. Kilgore calls it a defining juncture for Michelle. “I was also going to say that exact moment, Charlie,” Lockard says, a few minutes after finishing a banana. “So it was funny to hear you say it.
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