Andrew Dost/Biography

There's not much known about Andrew Dost. A few things we know about Dost are:
===About Fun===
*Dost is a member of Fun.
*After the 2008 breakup of The Format, Nate Ruess formed Fun with Dost and Jack Antonoff of Anathallo and Steel Train respectively.
*Immeadiately afterward the split of The Format in February 2008, Nate Ruess asked Dost and Jack Antonoff to join his new project. Dost had toured with The Format and provided various instrumentation.
*Dost provides vocals, piano, guitars, bass guitar, keyboards, synthesizers, trumpet, flugelhorn, glockenspiel, drums, percussion, french horn and beach ball for Fun from of 2008.
===About Some Nights===
*Multi-instrumentalist Dost said the 2012 Fun album Some Nights "renewed [my] faith that you cam make a big, grand artistic statement, and you can care."
*Nate Ruess would come in with lyrics and a melody for the 2012 Fun album Some Nights, leading Dost and guitarist Jack Antonoff to build chord structure and instrumentation from there, or "support that melody." Dost noted that in recording, despite the composer's well-defined framework, the individuals' egos "pretty much disappear" and "everybody is happy to work towards the best possible song" cohesively together.
*Jeff Bhasker particularly enjoyed recording guitars with guitarist Jack Antonoff as he wasn't used to it, and Dost felt hearing Bhasker compose beats was "mind-blowing."
*Although the album isn't a concept album, the title changed the band's idea for the album considerably, with Dost stating, "It's really nice once you have a title to know what the parameters are of what you're working on as a whole."
*The band was in shock at the news, with Dost saying that "that's just one of the coolest things that could possibly have happened."
*Consequent of Sound panned the album, giving it a one-star rating and stating "Nate Ruess, Jack Antonoff and Dost now put forth mediocrity so vainly sterile, the most daring things going for them are their album cover and their one-liner band name."
*Dost wrote every song on the album.
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