His Clancyness is a Canadian Italian band based in

Bologna Bologna ( , , ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy. It is the List of cities in Italy, seventh most populous city in Italy, with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nationalities. Its M ...

, Italy formed in 2009 by Jonathan Clancy. Currently the band consists of Jonathan Clancy on guitar and vocals, Jacopo Borazzo on drums, Giulia Mazza on organ and synthesizers and Nico Pasquini on bass and sampler. His Clancyness is signed to Brighton-based independent label

FatCat Records FatCat Records is an English independent record label based in Brighton. The label's output reaches into many styles including experimental rock, electronica, psychedelic folk, contemporary classical, noise and post-punk. Notable artists that ...

Biography

His Clancyness' music has been described as 1970s New York

art-punk Art punk, or artcore, is a subgenre of punk rock in which artists go beyond the genre's rudimentary garage rock and are considered more sophisticated than their peers. These groups still generated punk's aesthetic of being simple, offensive, and ...

and late-1980s US

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mixing elements of

krautrock Krautrock (also called , German for ) is a broad genre of experimental rock that developed in Germany in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It originated among artists who blended elements of psychedelic rock, avant-garde composition, and electron ...

and

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songwriting. Tha band initially released two EP's in tape form, ''Hissometer Cassette'' and ''Always Mist''. The latter garnered praise and buzz from online publications such as

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and

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Discography

* ''Hissometer'' (2009) * ''Aways Mist'' (2010) * ''Always Mist Revisited'' (2012) * ''Vicious'' ( FatCat) (2013) * ''Isolation Culture'' (Maple Death Records) (2016)

References

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