"11 Acorn Lane's music has accumulated more than 100 million streams on paying platforms and another few dozen millions through viral user-generated content on YouTube and TikTok.
The duo is downright the anti-dote to AI-music given that they conceive, concoct and contrive their works note for note, instrument for instrument in hundreds of passionately played and recorded takes in the confines of their subterrestrial vault they call ""The Armory"" that harbors their euphonius arsenal of equipment.
Their witty and entertaining new track ""Black Cat"" is an upbeat blend of swing, crime jazz and electronics with a hunch of Halloween."
Thomas Feurer and Neal Pawley, who are 11 Acorn Lane, create "accomplished musical whimsy" (LA Times) that inspires critics to fanciful descriptions. MSN Music calls their jazzy tunes "a groovy concoction of lounge music and contemporary electronics spiked with top notes of surf rock, cha-cha and brass." Metromix says they "sound like Henry Mancini, Herb Alpert and Lawrence Welk sharing a drunken jam session." In other words, they swing.
11 Acorn Lane's signature sound, combining painstaking craftsmanship with tongue-in-cheek quirkiness, explains why they've had music featured on shows including HBO's "Bored to Death," Showtime's "Weeds," FOX's "Bones, " NPR's "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" and PBS's "Roadtrip Nation" and in the European English-language film "Girl On A Bicycle," among many other prominent placements, as well as on compilations in Europe and Japan.
A chance meeting in New York resulted in 11 Acorn Lane's uniquely upbeat melding of jazz, Latin, exotica, funk and big band lounge music with influences from their own histories and from around the world, including current beats, electronica and modern production techniques. That's why 11 Acorn Lane is a place where, Feurer says, "Henry Mancini meets Fatboy Slim over a glass of wine, and Count Basie and Busby Berkeley pop in."
It's also "an imaginary address where our music lives," Pawley explains, "in an imaginary lounge where all kinds of instruments get together and do unexpected things."
