Department of Eagles is tagged as: indie, experimental, folk, electronic, alternative
Department of Eagles began in 2001 when Daniel Rossen and Fred Nicolaus randomly assigned to live together with New York University during their college lax spring semester they made an "album" of beat-type songs best described as "What DJ Shadow is retarded little brother would sound like" Yet a small record company in California heard the CDR and wanted to release a few 7 "singles Around that time a friend's dad Jeff Saltzman asked the group to record in his new studio Fred and Dan used the opportunity to record the bulk of their debut album, which contained a mixture of beat-type stuff and more straightforward songwriting, it was released in 2003 and did fine selling a modest number of copies and collect some December press ENT
In 2004 the group graduated from college and moved toan apartment in Brooklyn with an aggressive hirsute landlord named Baki Shortly after, Daniel joined the group Grizzly Bear and started playing guitar and singing with them (he went on to write a significant portion of their second album, Yellow House) Fred tried to escape his boring magazine job by going on tour opening for the band subtle but the tour was canceled when Subtle's bus crashed tragically injured keyboardist Dax Pierson DOE was something of a break since 2005, a British lab... Read More About Department of Eagles Biography...
