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Release Date: 2024-06-28 on Jigsaw (CD) and Bleeding Gold (LP).

Buy the CD: https://jigsaw-records.com/

Buy the LP: https://bleedinggoldrecords.bandcamp.com/album/bg124-become-an-island

Become an Island is our follow-up to 2015’s Chosen Era (Jigsaw/Bleeding Gold). The title track presaged the socially distanced world we lived through to “bait the virus / just for some fun.” But we started recording it years before the pandemic at Rad Town in Bed-Stuy.

In 2021, after a year of practicing over JamKazam, we got back to in-person again, working on new material, and finishing older material with help from Travis Harrison (Guided by Voices) and mastering by Jamal Ruhe.

Album art © Mariah Robertson from her Book of Details—check it out at the NY Art Book Fair! https://www.mariahrobertson.com/

:: press

“Become an Island is its ringing title track, an anthemic, jangly track that recalls the heyday of ’80s college radio” - Brooklyn Vegan

“Driven by an insistent rhythm and neon-slashed synths, ‘Spring’ fizzes through the speakers.” - Raven Sings the Blues

"’Pro Volunteer’ is a rousing, surging indie rock anthem suffused with buzzing guitars, pounding drums and gang vocals.” - When You Motor Away

“Crisp guitar licks from the era where folks like Alex Chilton struck gold” - Austin Town Hall

“Lame Drivers expertly straddle the fine lines that separate power pop, punk, new wave and golden-age indie rock” - Nate K, WFMU

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