The Neighbourhood

An American alternative rock pop band that formed in Newbury Park, California, USA, in August 2011. The group includes Jesse Rutherford, Jeremy Friedman, Zach Abels, Mikey Margott and Brandon Fried. Brian Sammis (drums) left the band in January 2014.

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The band released their first EP, I'm Sorry... in January 2013, where their single Sweater Weather reached # 1 on American alternative tracks and # 8 on American rock tracks and # 33 on Billboard Hot 100. The song also received # 68 in tops in Canada. Their first album, “I Love You, ” was released on April 23, 2013.
In early 2012, a mysterious group appeared on the Internet. The Neighborhood group did not disclose any biographical data, photographs or background, offering only a moody track called "Female Robbery."

Fans and the press were baffled by scouring the Internet for any information that could lead them to the identity of these musicians. Pieces of the puzzle, some reflecting reality, and some not so much, began to appear. The neighborhood was a quintet. They were from California, despite the British spelling of their name. They had a second track, “Sweater Weather, ” which featured an accompanying and equally gloomy video.

The Neighborhood Hits

1. “SCARY LOVE”
2. “LURK”
3. “WIRES”
4. “SWEATER WEATHER”
5. “FLOWERS”

Although the identity remained hazy, it became clear that the music they were creating felt transforming for both critics and fans. The emotional combination of rock instruments with R&B and hip-hop aesthetics in many ways seemed frank, reinterpreting the sounds that seemed to make people demand more information with even greater fervor. In April, BBC Radio One DJ Zane Lowe, the band’s early champion, said Neighborhood was the work of musician Jesse Rutherford, a resident of Newbury Park, California. By early May, when the band introduced a free, self-released EP called “I'm Sorry, ” it became clear that the identity of this young band was ultimately secondary to the music itself.

The neighborhood song

1. “LET IT GO”
2. “PREY”
3. “R.I.P. 2 MY YOUTH ”
4. “ALLEYWAYS”
5. “FEMALE ROBBERY”

In fact, the band that formed in August 2011 is a collection of five friends who make music together. They are led by Rutherford, a 21-year-old singer who dabbled in various genres, including hip hop, before creating a fusion of sounds that classifies the Neighborhood style. Their debut EP was prepared by Justin Pilbrow, who invited Emil Haney to participate in the "Women's Heist". The EP, recorded late last year, consists of dark, emotional music with relevant visual effects. And this is all part of the group’s master plan.
“I always have a strong vision before I go into something, ” says Rutherford. “I don’t know how to make music differently. All this was in my head, and this vision of music was to make hip-hop beats with guitars, and I was going to sing and rap over them. We wanted to make this hip hop aesthetic on an indie platform. "

"I'm Sorry, " a five-song CD, is the precursor to the band's debut album, which is also produced by Pilbrow and Haynie. The album, which is expected to be released in March 2013, will expand the band's dull sensitivity, which combines the thoughtful layers of instrumental music with Rutherford's hip-hop motif. The style that the band dubbed “black and white” because of their confident inspiration is based mainly on rhythm, as evidenced by the EP. “When I started making music, I started playing drums and then started playing vocals, ” Rutherford explains. “And then I combined them together, because for me rap is just rhythmic vocals. I think hip-hop rhythm is what made me think. These are not just words, but how the words are pronounced. ”
In the end, all you need to know about the Neighborhood is in this music and in these words. There are more facts, more puzzle pieces, more information to reveal. But what's interesting is that they give you the whole picture when you can slowly discover it for yourself? Better to leave a little mysterious. Because, in the end, it was this ignorance that attracted the attention of the Neighborhood from the very beginning.