Amber Smith are a Hungarian pop trio based in Budapest, Hungary formed in 2000 by Imre Poniklo.
At that time the singer of the Fanzine was José Simon, a professional graphic designer, who is currently the stylist of Amber Smith.
In 2000 Imre Poniklo asked his fellow Fanzine mates (Ákos Örményi, Péter Egyedi, Ádám Földes) help him recording a demo entitled Above the Clouds.
In 2002 Oszkár Ács (previously played in Időrablók from Szeged) joined the band and in the same year Amber Smith recorded their first studio album in English language entitled My Little Servant.
This time with a different producer called Chris Brown, who previously worked on Radiohead's The Bends as an engineer and on Muse's Origin of Symmetry.
The album was released by the Lithuanian label M.P.3 International as CD and digitally on 18 February 2008 first in Hungary, then in the Baltics and finally in Germany.
In spring 2009 the band played at the SXSW festival in the United States in San Antonio and Austin, Texas.
The album was recorded at the Metropol Studios by Dániel Sándor and Eszter Polyák in Budapest, Hungary.
On 5 March 2013, Amber Smith announced on their Facebook profile that Oszkár Ács left the band.
The band recorded four full-length studio albums with Ács, who also contributed to the songwriting with songs like Welcome To C.I.A., Bourbon and Soda, Faster Than The Speed of Light, Your Life Is My Death, Hong Kong Falls.
[9][10][11] Oleg "Toof" Zubkov (of Kollaps fame) joined the band in spring 2013 and is a member since, contributing his unique style in both playing and songwriting to amber smith on 2015's synth-dominated LP Modern and on 2017's eclectic album "New".
The keyboards on the song The Folksinger's Midlife Crisis was played by the band's former keyboardist, Zalán Póka.