Mushroom Music Publishing

Correatown was a name someone called her once. Imagine the lights that slowly haze by when you’re driving home late at night bleary eyed, or the night sky heavy with clouds just after a thunderstorm. It’s Angela Correa’s band daydream fully realized in a dark club filled with the reverberating layers of washy guitars, beautiful harmonies, growling fuzzed out analog synths and a melodious voice. Based in the Eastside of Los Angeles, the band is a mainstay in the tightly knit local music community.

In previous incarnations, Correatown was a more spare amalgam of early folk and lo-fi buzzing indie rock; however, over the past few years the sound has evolved into a lush and textured experience of melodic soundscapes. “When I began writing songs for our latest recordings I kept imagining the sounds and instruments that would shape the direction of our new songs. The most appealing were really freaked out thick and pulsing bass sounds or odd twitchy static noises tucked into shimmering and ethereal melodies. I wasn’t sure how it could end up being beautiful but the more the band explored different arrangements and instruments, the more I felt the possibility of having a less organic sound that felt more evocative of the music we wanted to create was our compass,” confesses Angela. Correatown sought out producer Dan Long, and with bandmates Mike Corwin, Rob Poynter, Jenni Tarma and Joanie Mendenhall spent several months over the course of a year locked in the cozy wood-paneled headwest studio in atwater creating the sound of their most recent recordings. Look for a first quarter release in 2011.