One Liner: Pretty chilled out alt rock that works
Poster Position: Top Quarter - Line 6
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Thoughts: Oh yes. The sweet sounds of a good band that I have never heard of being on this poster. I am so grateful. I get a little Fleet Foxes and a little Rainbow Kitten Surprise before they went arena sized.
Four-piece band formed in 2012 and lost a member in 2017 but continued on with a new bassist. Their Wikipedia is especially bad - it pretty much just lists their albums and when they came out. So, I had to actually go hunt for information. Rude. They met in school, gigged for a minute, uploaded one song to Soundcloud and got signed. Not too bad. But it sounds like a little bit of a stressful ride, as they were suddenly playing sold out shows and massive festivals, without much experience as a band. The lead singer claims he never sang to anyone before this band.
But by now, they must be grizzled vets, with four albums in the wild and a slot at the vaunted ACL Fest! 2016's So Long Forever has their top streamer, "Live Well" has 180.6 million streams.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6noiVByjzM
Gentle and groovy, and it kind of opens up as it goes along. I like it. That guitar work is cool. The whole catalog is solid. Let's do the title track to the newest EP, 2025's Greyhound. 14.4 million streams.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUNC2e7rDzE
Again, you come in with that sort of laid-back, breezy guitar work and the falsetto vocals smoothly rolling through. I would absolutely go see these guys play live. I would normally ask for a touch more "edge" in my rock, but I have really enjoyed this listen.
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