Artist Biography
Jim and the French Vanilla sounds like the name of a band, but it's actually a solo recording project from Jim Blaha, guitarist with the Minneapolis-based indie rock band the Blind Shake. In his spare time, Blaha was writing and recording acoustic-based pop tunes with angular melodies and occasional bursts of sound effects and minimal percussion, all captured with his lo-fi bedroom recording setup. 2008's Roll Out the Candy was a limited-run album released by Modern Radio on CD-R. In 2012, Blaha assembled another set of bedroom recordings, fittingly titled II. In 2017, Jim and the French Vanilla went electric with the release of Afraid of the House on Dirtnap Records. ~ Mark Deming
Hometown
Minneapolis, MN, United States
Genre
Alternative