Branden Barnett: Lead Vocals, Lead guitar, Crazy Shuffle w/ Emphatic Salutes
Sam Kim: Vocals, Violin, Keys, sleepy dance, soldier boy and General Mayhem, Popper
Ryan Haye: Bass, sunday gayness (apparently), apathy and disrespect, Crotch Props.
David Murphy: Drums, Vocals, 4 a.m. barking, Sierra Nevada dreaming.
Influences
Elvis Costello, The Beach Boys, Brian Eno, The Kinks, Nick Lowe, The Velvet Underground, Belle and Sebastian.
Sounds Like
Big loud pop music with sweeping strings and lots of sweating
These three lads and one lady hail from Columbus, Oh. Branden Barnett, lead vocalist and lead guitar player is the primary songwriter. Samantha Kim, small in stature but huge in sound plays violin and sings, Ryan Haye Plays bass guitar and David “Murph” Murphy plays drums and sings. They create giant, sweeping, epic pop songs about love and love lost with a layer of melodic, soaring violin and harmonies. Don’t be fooled though… live they play like the who or the Stooges, banging out each song like it’s their last.
When you do come back to Madison, I will personally drag everone I know out to see you and they will all thank me for eternity. We're looking forward to the new CD.
Hey, Great job last night! You put on a hell of a set. I'd never seen a full set before last night and I walked away very impressed by your energy and tightness. Let's do it again sometime soon.
stuff sounds great guys, really! sam, the violin sounds great! hope to see u guys at the release! sorry i couldnt make it to yours, we had a gig out of town!
