F&M

F&M is a gently sardonic, dark and hopelessly clever art-folk / library-rock band with a sound that is delicate, heady and glacial. F&M's roots began as Ryan Anderson’s experiment in self-recording. Ryan prefers to think of himself as “experience-trained.” He believes in the cocktail-napkin method of song-writing: a brilliant idea could hit at any moment and he has never written two songs the same way. He draws his musical inspiration from some of his favourite artists — Leonard Cohen, Smog, Will Oldham, and The National, to name a few — from famous playwrights like Bernard Shaw — and from human experience. He was once approached after a gig and told “You sing the saddest songs, but with the biggest smile!” After a hiatus to travel and study, F&M grew into a collaboration between Ryan and Becky Anderson, with new music, an updated image, two additional musicians (Bryan Reichert and Chad Andriowski) stolen from a defunct electronic-pop band , and a long lost brother (Kevin Anderson) to play the bass. Becky acquired formal music training on the pipe organ, but is mainly self-taught in piano, accordion, and guitar and cymbeline. She is rooted in deep academic lo... more...