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Illkira
Illkira formed in the early 2000s with Justin Jesso on vocals and guitar, Gareth Harding on bass and keyboards, and Aidan Moffat on drums. They came together...
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Illkira formed in the early 2000s with Justin Jesso on vocals and guitar, Gareth Harding on bass and keyboards, and Aidan Moffat on drums. They came together around a shared interest in ambient textures and lyrics that leaned toward the introspective.
In 2010, their debut album arrived with the title track "Someone Like You." The song's quiet, haunting quality connected with listeners in a way that pushed the band beyond its initial following.
They followed that with albums like Reverie in 2012 and Ephemera in 2015, records that let them stretch into more electronic and classical spaces while keeping that core atmospheric feel. The band faced some legal questions around Reverie in 2017, but those were resolved without halting their work.
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