Hangedup are a post-rock group from Montreal, Canada. Post-rock is a genre of Alternative rock characterized by the use of Musical instruments commonly associated with Rock music, but using Rhythms Montreal, or Montréal in French ( pronounced in French, in English) is the largest city in the Canadian province of Quebec They are a two-piece band, featuring Genevieve Heistek (Sackville, Pest 5000) on Viola and Eric Craven (Shortwave, Sackville) on drums and percussion. Sackville is a Montreal -based project that plays what has been classified as country and pop, although their very original style resembles more folk The viola is a bowed String instrument. It is the middle voice of the Violin family, Shortwave Radio operates between the frequencies of 3000 KHz (3 A drum kit (also drum set or trap set) is a collection of Drums Cymbals and sometimes other Percussion instruments such as cowbells Their sound can be described as viola put into loops, with lots of percussion (sometimes using selfmade instruments).
They formed in 1999, and were signed to Montreal's independent Constellation Records label, where their other band Sackville was also signed. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) Constellation Records is an influential Montreal, Quebec Independent record label known for its contributions to Post-rock.