Band Bio

THE NEW RECORD

Conrad continues the difficult birth that is their second album. Recording started in 2004 with beds at the Arts Institute in Burnaby, carried over to an influenza fueled 4 day session at their rehearsal space in Coquitlam and continues with overdubs, etc. up to the minute. June 2005 release we hope.

Mark Eddy (an old friend of Larry's) joined the band in 2003, adding his trippy-Byrds-like take on guitar. Brett Galliford left the band in 2005.

HISTORY

Vancouver band CONRAD formed in May 2001 when singer/songwriter/guitarist Larry Lechner and bassist/singer Adrian Popple drafted drummer Brett Galliford from Ontario.

The band's sound evolved quickly and produced songs that veer from swirling dream pop to indie rock to cautious twang. The influences are varied. With Lechner occasionally conceding some ground to the Country and Western endured at his parents' knee and the liquid pop underpinning of Popple and Galliford the sound is from all over the musical map, yet firmly and inevitably Canadian. Some describe it as 'jangly pop'... some say 'liquid rock'. Whatever.

CONRAD's self-titled full length debut was released in August 2002.

The disc was recorded at the Smilin' Buddha Enjoyment Complex in December 2001 with production by Brodie Smith and CONRAD. The richly textured album includes the guitar, keyboards and audio engineering of Brodie, and features the lap steel guitar of Chris Herbst.