One Liner: Retro Soul goodness with a great live sound.
Wikipedia Genre: Retro soul, contemporary R&BHome: Indiana
Poster Position: 11
Weekend Two Only.
Friday at 3:15 on the T-Mobile Stage.
Thoughts: These dudes rolled through for the 2018 Festival (which still feels fresh since we missed last year). I didn't get to see them (or at least I don't have any recollection of it, which feels like the same thing).
But, 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 powerful 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. Three albums - self titled from 2016, American Love Call in 2019, and Private Space (coming soon in July but some singles out now). The original album was kind of cool, because it 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 from that original album, with just over 9 million streams is called "Smile."
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.
The most streamed tune is "Is It Any Wonder," with 12.2 million streams and a different singer going 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.
Top track from that original album, with just over 9 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. Maybe even more appropriate now than back in 2016! "As me how I'm doin', smile and say just fine." Good tune. THE PANDEMIC ANTHEM!
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.
The most streamed tune is "Is It Any Wonder," with 12.2 million streams and a different singer going 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.
His voice is flipping pure as hell. The live songs sound really good too. Let's also check out the most recent single, something called "Witchoo." 308k streams so far.
Okay, I dig that funky ass intro for sure. We still have the drummer doing the singing! Why are they taking my man Durand out of the mix? Ah, there he is - he's throwing down some quasi rap there after the first little bit. That bass line is dope, and I really like the background chatting stuff like some classic Marvin Gaye jam used to have.
I'd give this stuff a shot to see what happens in person. Certainly better than most of the bands I have listened to so far...
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