# Pattern Is Movement

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**Pattern Is Movement** (often stylized as **Pattern is Movement**) is an [American](/source/United_States_of_America) [indie rock](/source/Indie_rock) band from [Philadelphia](/source/Philadelphia), [Pennsylvania](/source/Pennsylvania), that was established in 2001. They have been categorized by some reviewers as a [math rock](/source/Math_rock) group and compared to groups such as [Don Caballero](/source/Don_Caballero), [Sunny Day Real Estate](/source/Sunny_Day_Real_Estate) and [Pinback](/source/Pinback). However, as the band moved from a five-piece to a two-piece, their sound moved away from the angular sound of previous records and closer to a more melodic heavy composition structure with sing-a-long choruses. The current two-piece sound can be attributed to influences such as [Dirty Projectors](/source/Dirty_Projectors), [Beirut](/source/Beirut_(band)) and [Grizzly Bear](/source/Grizzly_Bear_(band)). In an interview with Baeble Music, Ward coined the band with the term "indie cabaret".[citation needed]

In 2006, producer and engineer [Scott Solter](/source/Scott_Solter) (who has worked with [John Vanderslice](/source/John_Vanderslice) and [the Mountain Goats](/source/The_Mountain_Goats)) remixed the 2005 album *Stowaway*, which he had also recorded. This remix was considered unique due to its exclusivity to analog processes. Solter is credited on the album with "machines, razors, tape."[1]

Since 2008, Pattern Is Movement have been performing as a two-piece. On the January 2008, issue of *[Philadelphia Weekly](/source/Philadelphia_Weekly)* they were featured in a cover story citing "Four indie bands that can expect a big year".[2] The band emerged with a new album, *All Together*, documenting the lineup in the spring of 2008, also recorded with Solter.[3] In his favorable review, [Pitchfork Media](/source/Pitchfork_Media) writer Joe Tangari described it as "an accessible album that nonetheless sounds unlike what any other band is doing".

In April 2009 they became one of [Limewire's](/source/Limewire) Featured Artists.

In 2015, after releasing their self-titled fourth album, Pattern Is Movement announced their farewell tour.[4]

## Discography

- *The (im)possibility of Longing* (NFI) – 2004
- *Stowaway* (NFI) – 2005
- *Scott Solter Plays Pattern Is Movement: Canonic* (Hometapes) – 2006
- *All Together* (Hometapes) – 2008
- *Pattern Is Movement* (Hometapes) – 2014

## References

1. Blair (20 September 2006). ["I like tape"](http://music.for-robots.com/archives/001623.html). *Music for Robots*

1. Wallen, Doug (9 January 2008). ["Four Indie Bands that Can Expect a Big Year"](https://archive.today/20131223212059/http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/news-and-opinion/cover-story/38463849.html?page=2&comments=1&showAll=). *Philadelphia Weekly*. Archived from [the original](http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/news-and-opinion/cover-story/38463849.html?page=2&comments=1&showAll=) on 23 December 2013.

1. ["Pattern Is Movement @ Cake Shop, NYC (The Forms CD Release Party) 10/30/07"](http://www.stereogum.com/?p=006997). *Stereogum*. 31 October 2007.

1. ["Pattern is Movement will say goodbye after 13 years"](http://www.facebook.com/Patternismovement/posts/10155458536385296). Official Facebook page. 17 April 2015. [Archived](https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/facebook/240265695295/10155458536385296) 2022-02-26 at the Wayback Machine.

## External links

- [Official site](http://www.patternismovement.com/)

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