A Los Angeles band whose lyrics turn personal grief into cathartic, urgent songs.
If you want to hear what they're about, start with 'Flowers And You' or 'Green', both songs that show how they turn raw grief into something you can feel in the room.
Jeremy Bolm's writing pulls directly from his own life, especially his mother's death, which gives tracks like 'Flowers And You' a heavy, specific gravity. That honesty has defined their sound across five albums, from the early depression themes on 'To the Beat of a Dead Horse' to the more expansive grief on 'Stage Four'. It's music that doesn't hide its scars, and that's why it sticks.
They started in 2007 in LA, with Bolm on vocals and a lineup that's stayed mostly steady. Their debut in 2009 dealt bluntly with suicide and depression, and later records like 'Is Survived By' and 'Stage Four' dug deeper into Bolm's personal losses. By 2020's 'Lament', they were stretching musically but kept that emotional core intact.
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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