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<div><strong>Repo Fam</strong> is the new musical project of Baltimore singer, guitarist, and keyboardist <strong>Michelle Peña</strong>.</div>
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<div>Repo Fam isn’t Michelle’s first musical endeavor. She helped form the short-lived indie-pop trio <strong>Esmond</strong> and spent two years playing wild and urgent keyboards for the radical Washington, D.C. punk band <strong>Foul Swoops</strong>. After stints in groups led by other people, Michelle felt it was time she took the lead and forge her own musical path.</div>
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<div>Assisted by <strong>Sean Connell</strong> (Foul Swoops) on drums and bass, and recorded by <strong>John Howard</strong> (<strong>Nice Breeze</strong>,<strong> The Plums</strong>), the songs on Repo Fam’s self-titled debut jump from subtle to direct and from introspective to urgent without hesitation. The cigarette ash and tricky guitar bits driving through the album signal an above-the-noise writer aiming to knock the pedestal gargoyles back to Earth. Packed in a black bubblegum pop house, these eight songs transcend the basement scene and shake loose the foundations of discotheques across the land. Take a tape and bop around a new block.</div>


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