Ken Stringfellow and Jon Auer's band has been writing sharp, melodic songs since the late 1980s.
If you only know 'Dream All Day,' check out 'Coming Right Along' or 'Accidental Architecture.' They show how the harmonies and hooks held up across the decades.
They arrived just before the Seattle grunge explosion with a different sound, cleaner guitars, stacked harmonies, songs that felt more like Big Star than Mudhoney. 'Dream All Day' from 1990's 'Dear 23' is the one that still gets played, a perfect three-minute jangle about escaping into your head. Later records like 'Frosting on the Beater' kept that tunefulness but added some grit.
They started in 1988 with a self-titled debut, then put out 'Dear 23' two years later. Stringfellow left in 1996, but he and Auer reunited for tours in the 2000s and have been making albums together again since around 2010, including 'Solid States' in 2016.
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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