ERAAS

The story

The sense of creating art that can spirit you away somewhere else entirely is something that most definitely also informs the self-titled debut album from Brooklyn, NY based band ERAAS. In 2011, the band's founding members, Robert Toher and Austin Stawiarz, both ex-members of New England-based project APSE, were gravitating more towards ritualistic and darker themes not fully explored in their previous incarnation. In searching for a place to translate this mood to record

From Last.fm, written by its listeners.

Stories

Beyond the records: books, other lives and interviews, from the band and its members.

Watch

Tap the heart on the board while a song plays and it lands here. Listeners who keep their listening private are counted, never named.

Records

Records from MusicBrainz, completed with the release lists of Deezer. Sleeves from the Cover Art Archive and the same lists.

Members

• Public Memory
• Austin Stawiarz
• Robert W. Toher

Members past and present, each with their own page. From MusicBrainz and Discogs.

Also plays on

Records by other artists with ERAAS in the credits, from the song and record credits of MusicBrainz and Discogs. Their own bands are above.

Playlists with ERAAS in them: Sonic Architects selections and Pause & Record tapes from linr listeners, Deezer’s editors and curators, radio shows on Mixcloud and ListenBrainz playlists. Every tile opens on linr first, with the original one link away.

If you like ERAAS

• Nirvanasame scene: ambient, US
• Nine Inch Nailssame scene: ambient, US
• Bucketheadsame scene: ambient, US
• DJ Shadowsame scene: ambient, US
• The Smashing Pumpkinssame scene: ambient, US
• Mobysame scene: ambient, US
• BTsame scene: ambient, US
• Bull of Heavensame scene: ambient, US
• Sufjan Stevenssame scene: ambient, US
• Thievery Corporationsame scene: ambient, US
• Lowsame scene: ambient, US
• James Ferrarosame scene: ambient, US

Where the listeners of ListenBrainz, Last.fm and Deezer agree, with the circle of ERAAS’s own bands. A source that names other people with the same name is left out.