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Correatown is the musical project of Angela Correa, an LA based artist whose latest album Pleiades – released on Highline Records August 27th in the UK/Europe and October 16th in US/Canada – seems destined to soundtrack the ensuing months.
Fresh off the heels of a successful UK / European tour where she did a session with Lauren Laverne on BBC 6 Music and stand out CMJ Performances, Correatown returns to her home of Los Angeles before launching Pleiades’ next single.
Originally from the small town of Yuba City in Northern California Correa has travelled the globe, eventually settling in Los Angeles’ Eastside and is now a mainstay in it’s tightly knit local music community.
In previous incarnations, Correatown was an amalgam of early folk and indie-pop sensibility; but over the past few years the sound has evolved into a lusher, more textured experience. Recalls Angela “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. 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.”
Angela Correa/ Correatown have released four full-length albums and two EPs on her own label in the U.S, Another Room Recordings. Her songs have appeared on US television, including Grey’s Anatomy, Ugly Betty, Brothers and Sisters and How I Met Your Mother.
Her voice was featured in the Sony Pictures film “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story” on the song “Let’s Duet” and only last year Further was included on the Grey’s Anatomy Soundtrack Vol 4.
Angela recently scored her first film – hip indie, Sassy Pants, which was released this October as well as having one of her tracks in the recent Scott Hicks’ film, The Lucky One starring Zac Efron.