Harlan Bio:

Harlan makes broken pop music for a cracked century. Harlan began when John Harlan Norris left his job at a Sotheby’s warehouse in Spanish Harlem, NYC to spend time writing music and painting in a mountain cabin in his native Kentucky. The cardboard box of resulting four-track demos eventually became the Headphone Park EP. Norris then moved to Louisiana to pursue an MFA in painting. When he wasn’t in the painting studio, he was in the recording studio putting together The Still Beat — an entirely self-produced debut LP filled with lush guitars, keyboards, and Harlan’s distinctive voice; a lazy vibrato that delivers razor sharp lyrics that are sometimes heartfelt and sometimes cruel. Now, Norris has assembled a band that injects the songs from The Still Beat with a new sense of energy and urgency. Harlan now also includes John Bossier, Scott Campbell, and Britt King. The Still Beat will be released on April 3, 2007 on Odd Thud Records.