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My Favorite

City of Origin: Stony Brook, NY, USA

Period of Activity: Late 1990s to mid 2000s, mid 2020s to present

Members: Gil Abad, Darren Amadio, Michael Grace Jr., Andrea Vaughn, Todbot

Related Artists: The Secret History

Discography:

• The Last New Wave Record EP (1994)
• The Informers & Us EP (1995)
• Love at Absolute Zero (1999)
• Joan of Arc Awaiting Trial EP (2000)
• A Cult of One EP (2001)
• The Kids Are All Wrong EP (2002)
• The Happiest Days of Our Lives (2003)
• Tender is the Nightshift: Part 1 EP (2022)

Social Media: Bandcamp | Instagram

From reading interviews online, I've gathered that My Favorite is a band that aspired to be indiepop in spirit, but not in form. That is, they were inspired by the politics behind the early indiepop bands (particularly from Olympia), but not necessarily the music itself. Instead, they chose to take after all those synthpop and New Romantic type groups of the early 1980s (in fact, it was listening to Ultravox that reminded me to do this writeup). I tend to agree with a lot of their criticisms of indiepop, actually, though I don't particularly feel like they stick out as un-indiepop in form, honestly? Though that's obviously because I'm listening like someone from 2026 instead of someone from 1996, I guess.