“My wife Psalm asked me to teach her how to play drums,” explains Jon Sebastian of The Color Wheels. “So I wrote some songs for us to play together as a band.” With Psalm drumming and Jon playing guitar and singing, the duo put together a batch of fun and cunningly charming songs. They recorded demos for their friends and played lots of shows, often joined by their friend Abe Germano on bass. From the beginning the band has taken a simplified, less-is-more approach to their songwriting. But don’t be fooled - behind the jangly guitars and sing-along melodies lies perfectly crafted indie pop with a surprising attention to detail. And although songs about pirate ships and camping trips may at first seem inconsequential, a closer listen reveals a clever tongue-in-cheek take on the themes of awkward emergent adolescence. “Trying to resist temptation while at the same time being confused and consumed by it,” Jon explains. Their new self-titled record was recorded at The Space Recording Studio in Poughkeepsie, NY and was produced and engineered by Jacques Cohen (Mercury Rev, The Brides, Agit Pop). | |
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