James Husband (Of Montreal)

James Huggins placed his mark on the Athens, GA music scene a long while ago, but it took 10 years on the road and relocating to Sweden to bring out his debut album. Playing with the Elephant 6 Collective groups 'Great Lakes, Essex Green, Marshmallow Coast' while remaining a core member and multi-instrumentalist in the band of Montreal for over a decade after agreeing to a 'part-time' position in 1998, he has kept his recordings exclusively behind the scenes. But now, Huggins is finally opening the vaults of his underground recording project and stepping out as a songwriter and solo artist with the release of James Husband's A Parallax I. A Parallax I is the sound of a one-man band amplified. A collection of songs that were written and recorded over a long period of touring and recording with of Montreal. It is an album that finds Huggins layering dozens of instruments and vocal tracks over a core of '60s fueled rock with a healthy dose of pysch/folk/pop scapes that refuse to stick to one genre. Pulling the nuggets from years of writing & recording, A Parallax I showcases the adept musicianship James has leant to the live shows of acts ranging from of Montreal to MGMT, Ladybug Transistor, Essex Green, Elf Power, and Ruby Suns to name a few. Officially recorded between 2003 and 2007 in of Montreal’s Athens-based home recording studio and Stockholm's Up & Running and Truckland Studios, A Parallax I is not only the synthesis of co-existing musical projects, but also parallel recording methods, as half of it was recorded on strictly analog tape machines, a bunch of tracks in a straight digital format, some on cassette tape and in about a half a dozen studios between Athens, Ga. & Stockholm, Sweden - with the final version seamlessly stitched together by Andy LeMaster. James Husband might be a new name to audiences, but A Parallax I is the work of a performer whose influence already permeates the sound of many bands. As the album title suggests, although James Husband appears displaced from the musical contexts you have previously known him in, the creative drive he brought to these other groups is still present here. You've been listening to James for years, you just didn't know it.