“Dark, romantic strains take flight. This gothic, orchestral indie-pop is sure to leave heads spinning with its unique and haunting sound.”
- NPR’s Second Stage

“Poetic, evocative.”
-LA Times

“Chris Robley represents a high ideal in rock, an artist who reaches for the new and uncertain while retaining a firm foothold in the familiar.”
-Bullz-Eye.com

“Robley pulls you into his tortured world view with a poetic sensibility that gives his music a depth and wisdom many young songwriters lack.”
-All Music Guide

“This era of over-stimulation seems to require music that corresponds to the hyperactive zeitgeist. Chris Robley provides it.”
-ThereStandsTheGlass.com

“Robley’s lyrics are as real, as strange, as good as his music.”
-Dryvetyme Onlyne

Purveyors of Jittery, Pictorial Pop.

As one critic put it, Portland, Oregon’s Chris Robley (the “Stephen King of Indie-Pop”), along with backing band The Fear of Heights, performs music that corresponds to the hyperactive zeitgeist of this modern era of over-stimulation. Diverse, energetic, disturbing, searching, skewed, catchy, exposed.

Robley’s first two critically lauded solo albums, “this is the” and “the drunken dance of modern man in love,” were both produced with Adam Selzer (M. Ward, The Decemberists, Laura Gibson). His third, “Movie Theatre Haiku,” was produced with the help of Mike Coykendall (She & Him, Beth Orton, M. Ward), Jeff Stuart Saltzman (Menomena, Stephen Malkmus), and Rob Stroup (Scott Fisher, Debra Arlyn).

The album upholds Robley’s reputation for writing story-songs about characters that find themselves in heartbreak and despair. But “Movie Theatre Haiku” also finds him taking his trademark blend of fractured folk and dark, psychedelic indie-pop into more ambitious orchestral and electronic territory.

Chris Robley & the Fear of Heights are near-completion on a new band record that is set for summer release, 2010. It is total radness. You’re going to love it. Word.

The Fear of Heights are:

John Stewart- drums, vocals

Arthur Parker- bass, guitar, keyboard, vocals

Dan Adlaf- keyboards, flugelhorn, percussion, glockenspiel

(photo of Chris Robley by Cristin Norine)

(all other photos by Inger Klekacz)