Artist Description
Corey Dargel has been called "a baroquely unclassifiable artist" (The New Yorker) and "an innovator both challenging and catchy" (Time Out New York). His gentle assault on the pop idiom creates a tension that pervades his music: Deadpan and detached vocals reveal heartbreaking intimacies, awkward and obtrusive drum patterns struggle against fragile harmonies, vocals and music uneasily opposing each other as songs stumble to their ends. Salon praises his songs’ “rococo ingenuity” and “sustained bursts of lyrical brilliance,” and according to Gramophone magazine, he has “a compositional sense guaranteed to keep close listeners on their toes. Words and music are truly equal partners....”Dargel’s theatrical song-cycle about love and voluntary amputation, REMOVABLE PARTS, premiered in September 2007 at HERE Arts Center and was hailed as "lyrically brilliant and totally original" (Flavorpill) and "almost perversely pleasurable... with an intelligent grace that is as moving as it is impressive" (New York Times). It was performed by Dargel with Kathleen Supové (piano) and directed by Emma Griffin with dances by choreographer Yvan Greenberg.
Dargel’s critically acclaimed debut album, LESS FAMOUS THAN YOU, is a collection of songs about falling in love with famous (or semi-famous) people. It was released on Use Your Teeth (London) in May 2006 and named one of the Top Ten Albums of 2006 by Time Out New York.
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