Fake Plants

Portland

An art pop group from Portland, OR and Amsterdam – Fake Plants is the duo of vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Chance Flato and bassist/multi-instrumentalist Daniel Whiteneck. Fake Plants have been honing their textured sound and mining ethereal pop hooks in one form or another since 2005. Flato and Whiteneck met in Norman, Oklahoma when the two became chance neighbors on Monnett Street near the university. Living right across the street from one another, the two became fast friends over their shared love of dream pop, psychedelic music and the Movement. They quickly formed a group called the Allies and began playing on the local music scene. In 2006 the group relocated to Portland OR, but the band proved to be short lived. Flato and Whiteneck continued writing music together and Fake Plants was born. Fake Plant’s debut album, Moon Ray is a reflection on contemporary life through the lens of different Oregon based landscapes. A concept album, Moon Ray opens near the ocean, strolls through the forest, wanders around the desert and closes the night in the city. The album was written and recorded by Flato and Whiteneck over a 3 year period primarily in Flato’s basement and mixed by Portland based audio engineer Larry Crane (Elliott Smith, Quasi, Tape Op Magazine) and Norman based audio engineer Trent Bell (Chainsaw Kittens, Flaming Lips). Moon Ray proves to be an eclectic mix of orchestrated craftsmanship with hypnotic pop sensibilities and reflective, daydream musings.