Founded: 2011
Location: United States
Electric Guest is a Los Angeles–based band formed in 2011. The group comprises Asa Taccone and Matthew "Cornbread" Compton. Luke Top plays bass and Reese Richardson plays keyboards/guitar in the touring version of the band. On April 24, 2012, the band released their debut album, Mondo. They released their second album, Plural, on February 17, 2017, and their third album, Kin, on October 18, 2019.
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"A fusion of well-produced electronic music, R&B and soulful pop."
"We'd send the stuff into the label and they're like, 'Oh, this is pretty dark, this is pretty heavy - you should keep writing.'"
“I was just looking at my little library of shit today... and probably in terms of like fleshed-out songs, there’s over 100. But there’s also about 400 ideas of stuff. I’ve got a ton of shit!”
At its heart, this is a pop record that has swagger and style...
Mondo may play just as smoothly on shuffle as it does in its intended sequence but the passion of the young musicians is evident at all times.
LA duo Electric Guest add gigs in Melbourne and Sydney onto their Splendour schedule.