Harriet's "I Slept With All Your Mothers" - Available for Free Download at RollingStone.com

Debut EP Tell the Right Story out January 31st
Who:
Harriet

What:
"I Slept With All Your Mothers" For Free Download

Where:
RollingStone.com

When:
Now

Why:
"The song sprouted from a lot of conflicted feelings. We were trying to echo that in the music. Mixing pretty ambience and lap steel with the anxiety of the relentless piano chords
and the heavy ending."

Alex Casnoff, Harriet on "I Slept With All Your Mothers"

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Harriet is a new Los Angeles-based band fronted by former Dawes member Alex Casnoff. The quartet will self-release their debut EP, titled Tell The Right Story, on January 31, 2012.

Inspired largely by classic storytelling and the spectacle of the movies, Tell The Right Story weaves eerily romantic ballads with unwavering anthems, and features classic elements of Americana and folk music contrasted with futuristic electronic samples and beats.

"I wanted it to feel big... cinematic. I wanted every song to be a movie, " said Casnoff. "I wanted it to feel like an occasion. I wanted it to feel like a wedding."

Casnoff was formerly a member of notable Los Angeles bands Dawes and PAPA, bands both named after grandfathers. In flipping the tradition, Casnoff decided to name the band after his grandmother, Harriet. After touring the country for years with his prior bands and with a growing arsenal of his own songs, Casnoff stepped into the studio in June 2011, armed with his nicest suit and a bottle of fine tequila, to record what would become Tell The Right Story. The result is a striking collection of songs that draw on the influence of classic American singer-songwriters, film, electronic music, and Casnoff's experience as a touring musician.

"I may have seen every gas station in the country, but the America I feel indebted to is not in the past, at least not that far. I am a product of my time. We make music about the retro-future. Music about coping. Anti motivational motivational music."

Harriet is Alex Casnoff, Aaron Folb (bass), Henry Kwapis (drums), and Adam Gunther (guitar). Tell The Right Story was produced by Sean O'Brien and recorded in Los Angeles and Sacramento.

"Hints at some of Dawes' more dynamic moments while capturing Casnoff's own unique emotional delivery." -Paste

"... Notably cinematic in nature with pointedly dramatic lyrics and melodies. "I Slept With All Your Mothers" is an aching indie rock number, as heavy in parts as it is forlorn." -RCRD LBL

"Triumphant cinematic pop." -One Thirty BPM

"Like the lovechild of Neutral Milk Hotel and Wilco, delivered twenty years late. It's a full-bodied elixir for the heartbreak of a crashing American Dream." -Neon Gold

UPCOMING LIVE DATES
January 16, 2012 - The Satellite - Los Angeles, CA
February 2, 2012 - Harvard & Stone - Los Angeles, CA