One Liner: Retro Soul goodness with a great live sound.
Wikipedia Genre: No wikipedia, going with retro soul Home: Indiana Poster Position: 16 Day: Saturday at 1:30 Both Weekends.
Thoughts: Yeah buddy. If you are into that retro soul movement that has been cropping up for the past few years, this group is right up your alley. A strained vocal of a guy feeling himself so hard that he can't be contained, over organ and guitar and hand claps and solid rhythm. Its good. Not as smokin' good as, like Nathaniel Rateliff or St. Paul & the Broken Bones, but still a fine sound. One album, released in 2018, which shows you both a studio side and a live side, with eight studio songs followed by 10 live tracks - the band sounds freaking good on stage. Top track with just over a million streams is called "Smile."
Yeah, you know, that works. Funky and soulful and good lyrics about the weird social interactions we have every day. This short article notes that the lead singer apparently got popped for sharing some prescription pills, which lead him into this life as a lead singer of a group of dudes from Indiana University School of Music. That sucks. But cool that they are taking a low key route to making some good tunes, their studio setup sounds awesomely DIY. Second-most listened-to track is called "Is It Any Wonder," and goes for that falsetto-soul thing like dudes used to do. Well, I guess new guys like Leon Bridges are trying this kind of thing back out again too.
Huh, didn't realize that the drummer had taken over the singing duties for that song. His voice is flipping pure as hell. The live songs sound really good too - I'd give this stuff a shot to see what happens in person.
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