Their songs like 'Everything' and 'Give Yourself Away' have a direct, personal quality.
If you want to hear what they're about, 'Everything' and 'Give Yourself Away' frame it pretty well. They're both from that first album and have that direct, personal quality.
Jackson Waters makes guitar-based alternative music that doesn't try to be fancy. Songs like 'Everything' have a plainspoken quality that feels lived-in rather than polished. Their 2019 single 'Center of Attention' got some alternative radio play, which suggests they connected with listeners who appreciate that kind of unadorned approach.
The band formed in Brooklyn around 2012 with Ethan James on vocals and guitar, Emily Carter on bass, and Jake Rodriguez on drums. They released their debut album 'The Weight of Expectations' in 2016, followed by an EP called 'Shadows of Doubt'. Their work has stayed in that lane of straightforward rock without much stylistic shifting.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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