Biography
There are multiple artists with this name: 1) ALSO is an indie/alternative-electronic duo from Los Angeles, United States. 2) Also was a gothic rock band from Germany. 3) Also is a collaborative project of Appleblim and Second Storey/Al Tourettes releasing on R&S Records.
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ALSO is a Los Angeles indie/alternative-electronic duo — vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Drew Roger Conrad and multi-instrumentalist Mark Zelen — who have been writing together for over two decades. The band makes music where the dreamy, the dark, and the cinematic collide: modern synth-pop woven with the emotional weight of 80s icons like Depeche Mode, Tears for Fears, and New Order — shimmering nostalgia set against brooding synths and atmospheric textures.
Within these soundscapes, ALSO confronts difficult themes — depression, bullying, suicide — not to romanticize them, but to offer honesty and connection. "There's nothing artsy about depression or mysterious about suicide," Conrad says. "It's horrific. But it's real, and if our music helps someone feel less alone, then it matters."
True to their name, ALSO embraces duality: shadow and light, melancholy and hope, the intimate and the cinematic — a reminder that there are always multiple ways to look at any given situation.
ALSO has toured extensively throughout Europe and been featured on NPR's All Songs Considered. Their track "Limousine" (from Chinese Ghost City) appeared on a Birdstone Records compilation alongside Grant-Lee Phillips and Rachael Yamagata. The band is regularly played on radio on both sides of the Atlantic, including KCRW in Los Angeles and Radio C Luxembourg in Europe.
Discography:
2003 – Morning (EP)
2005 – Send Them Off Smiling (EP)
2006 – It Was Fine To Be Kind (album)
2011 – Music Belongs In The Background (album)
2015 – Chinese Ghost City (EP)
2020 – Holiday
2020 – Festoon
2020 – Limousine (Instrumental Stretch)
2020 – Were We But Shadows
2020 – That's How Stars Are Made
2021 – The Lost Art of Thank You
2021 – I Want You to Want Me
2022 – Peace of the Heart
2023 – A Race I Choose Not to Run
2025 – Sisters & Brothers
2026 – Pioneers
2026 – Nightingale
2026 – Taller Than You Stood Before
From their earliest recordings in 2003 to today, ALSO's songs return to the same questions — how to sit with pain, how to find connection inside it. The sound has changed considerably over two decades; what the band is actually trying to say never has.
2) Also was a gothic rock / post-punk band from Germany. According to Goth specialist Mick Mercer, they are "one of Germany's best kept secrets" (Hex files - The Goth Bible). Also's "existenzialistische popmusik" was performed by Olive Gnass (bass player and the rich, partly programmed percussion), Tine Warmhold (guitars) and Alexander Dusts (vocals).
Also self-released their music on MC and CDR.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.