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The Glitch Mob’s Bio

“Pairing the richness and headiness of the best dance music with the head-nodding backbeats of hip-hop, [The Glitch Mob] only aim to move you, and they by and large succeed.” - Los Angeles Times

The Glitch Mob “sound” has always been a continually mutating concept, always pushing new boundaries as the group evolves. Drink The Sea arrives after years of intermittent yet acclaimed releases—spanning widely passed-around Internet mixtapes like the infamous Crush Mode (“Grab the Crush Mode mixtape. One of the first things to really get my blood going,” raved New Yorker critic Sasha Frere-Jones) to triumphant official remixes for TV On The Radio, Ed Banger’s Krazy Baldhead and Evil Nine featuring El-P. As such, The Glitch Mob and its members even held the top two spots on XLR8R’s “50 Best MP3s of 2008” over the likes of Hercules and Love Affair and the Kills, and their tracks have enjoyed heavy rotation on Mary Anne Hobbs’ taste-making BBC Radio 1 show. Drink The Sea represents a musical sea change for the band, however, combining the thundering percussive power of their live show with the relentlessly experimental ambition of the group’s core producer/instrumentalists Justin Boreta, Ed Ma, and Josh Mayer. “It’s definitely not just a collection of random club bangers,” Mayer explains. “We made this album with very little, if almost none, of our traditional studio production tricks,” Ma adds. “We wanted it to sound like us, but without gimmicks—no glitches, crazy edits or bizarre effects. There aren’t even any samples—all the sounds were created by us making them.”

Drink The Sea remains a key piece of the puzzle, but not the only one: the group’s live show is where The Glitch Mob experience truly comes together. “A super-group live show that would make Daft Punk proud. (They can count Bjork as a fan, who was spotted at one of their recent shows at The Roxy in Los Angeles),” 944 Magazine noted. One of the hardest-touring bands working today in electronic music, The Glitch Mob has drawn sell-out crowds whether on headlining jaunts in key U.S. cities or high-profile support slots for the likes of Prodigy and Pendulum (with whom they recently completed an extensive U.K. tour). On the upcoming nationwide tour, The Glitch Mob will be fusing the new material with extensive, never-before-experienced musical and visual production that pushes technology, sound and performance to new levels. “We’ve always wanted our live show to be as interactive and intense as possible—more of a band experience than dudes just hiding behind their laptops,” Boreta says. “Either on stage or on record, what we do has to be totally immersive, and this new show really is. If you can’t lose yourself in every aspect of it, it’s not The Glitch Mob.”