Del Rey
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Del Rey is an American instrumental post-rock band formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1997 by guitarists Eben English and Damien Burke, who later added drummer Michael Johnson in 1998, multi-instrumentalist Jason Ward in 2001, and bassist Chris Cowgill in 2003. The band's debut release was the EP DLRY (1999), followed by their debut studio album, Speak It Not Aloud (2001), on My Pal God Records. Their melodic blending of jazz and alternative rock drew comparisons to Chicago contemporaries Tortoise. The group followed this with Darkness & Distance (2003) and A Pyramid for the Living (2006). Their fourth album, Immemorial (2010), released on Golden Antenna Records, featured Asian instruments such as guzhengs and taiko drums. In late 2011, the album achieved unexpected commercial success in Germany when Amazon.de shoppers routinely confused the group with the singer Lana Del Rey, causing the album to repeatedly enter the site's top-sellers list and peak at number 7. The band later self-released the album The Backbone of Night (2017).
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