Pattern Is Movement

{{Short description|American indie rock band}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}}

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Pattern Is Movement

| image = Patternismovementcanopy.jpg

| caption = Pattern Is Movement performing in 2008

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| background = group_or_band

| alias =

| origin = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

| genre = Indie rock, math rock, experimental pop

| years_active = 2001–2015

| label = NFI, Hometapes

| associated_acts =

| current_members = Andrew Thiboldeaux
Chris Ward

| past_members = Wade Hampton
Daniel McClain
Corey Duncan

}}

Pattern Is Movement (often stylized as Pattern is Movement) is an American indie rock band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that was established in 2001. They have been categorized by some reviewers as a math rock group and compared to groups such as Don Caballero, Sunny Day Real Estate and Pinback. However, as the band moved from a five piece to a two piece, their sound moved away from the angular sound of previous records and closer to a more melodic heavy composition structure with sing-a-long choruses. The current two-piece sound can be attributed to influences such as Dirty Projectors, Beirut and Grizzly Bear. In an interview with Baeble Music, Ward coined the band with the term "indie cabaret".{{Citation needed|date=December 2013}}

In 2006, producer and engineer Scott Solter (who has worked with John Vanderslice and the Mountain Goats) remixed the 2005 album Stowaway, which he had also recorded. This remix was considered unique due to its exclusivity to analog processes. Solter is credited on the album with "machines, razors, tape."{{cite web|url=http://music.for-robots.com/archives/001623.html|title=I like tape|author=Blair|work=Music for Robots|date=20 September 2006}}

Since 2008, Pattern Is Movement have been performing as a two-piece. On the January 2008, issue of Philadelphia Weekly they were featured in a cover story citing "Four indie bands that can expect a big year".{{cite news|last=Wallen|first=Doug|title=Four Indie Bands that Can Expect a Big Year|url=http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/news-and-opinion/cover-story/38463849.html?page=2&comments=1&showAll=|date=9 January 2008|newspaper=Philadelphia Weekly|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20131223212059/http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/news-and-opinion/cover-story/38463849.html?page=2&comments=1&showAll=|archivedate=23 December 2013}} The band emerged with a new album, All Together, documenting the lineup in the spring of 2008, also recorded with Solter.{{cite web|title=Pattern Is Movement @ Cake Shop, NYC (The Forms CD Release Party) 10/30/07|url=http://www.stereogum.com/?p=006997|work=Stereogum| date=31 October 2007 }} In his favorable review, Pitchfork Media writer Joe Tangari described it as "an accessible album that nonetheless sounds unlike what any other band is doing".

In April 2009 they became one of Limewire's Featured Artists.

In 2015, after releasing their self-titled fourth album, Pattern Is Movement announced their farewell tour.{{cite web|url=http://www.facebook.com/Patternismovement/posts/10155458536385296 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/facebook/240265695295/10155458536385296 |archive-date=2022-02-26 |url-access=limited|title=Pattern is Movement will say goodbye after 13 years|date=17 April 2015|publisher=Official Facebook page}}{{cbignore}}