The Curtains

Featuring members of <a href="spotify:artist:7AZwAitWq1KcFoIJhRWb6V">Deerhoof</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:2YbBOu9HAEed8XHa6JJfv5">Natural Dreamers</a>, Open City, and St. Joseph and the Abandoned Food, the Curtains were formed in 2000 by <a href="spotify:artist:2OYDcH3MLWeNjj7gQVUbEF">Chris Cohen</a>, Trevor Shimizu, and Jamie Peterson. This version of the group recorded the 2001 debut album Fast Talks, a vinyl-only release limited to 500 copies. Peterson and Shimizu departed and were replaced by <a href="spotify:artist:3NF49vAOfTRgDEcjsHx9Ak">Greg Saunier</a> and Andrew Maxwell, who appeared on a split 7" with <a href="spotify:artist:2bLuogxHa6UA71TqBGYKTm">Ghost to Falco</a>, contributed a track to a Toyo compilation, and continued the group's self-released lathe-cut 7" series. The Curtains' second album, Flybys, arrived in fall 2003, coinciding with a tour and another split 7" with <a href="spotify:artist:0sc4qz42as3DlXXqQcU5Qk">Maher Shalal Hash Baz</a>. 2004's Vehicles of Travel found the band's outbursts moving in a more structured, song-like direction, which <a href="spotify:artist:2OYDcH3MLWeNjj7gQVUbEF">Cohen</a> explored even more fully on the fourth Curtains album, Calamity. <a href="spotify:artist:2OYDcH3MLWeNjj7gQVUbEF">Cohen</a> left <a href="spotify:artist:7AZwAitWq1KcFoIJhRWb6V">Deerhoof</a> to concentrate on the Curtains, writing, producing, and recording nearly all of the album on his own, though guitarist/vocalist <a href="spotify:artist:6uQXnRetBrDAvQyloOaCnp">Nedelle Torrisi</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:7g0isAVkGTBBNgmNmxhpAU">Half-Handed Cloud</a>'s John Ringhofer were drafted later to give the album a fuller sound. The Curtains found a new home on Asthmatic Kitty, who released Calamity in fall 2006. ~ Heather Phares, Rovi