We Are Augustines formed in Brooklyn around singer-songwriter Eric Sanderson and guitarist Billy McCarthy. Their name came from the novel 'Augustine,' which gives you a sense of where their heads were at. They put out their first album, 'Rise Ye Sunken Ships,' and followed it with records like 'Ember' and 'This Is How We Break Our Hearts.'
Their song 'Walkabout' from 2011 got some real traction. It's got that kind of haunting, drifting quality that people latched onto. You can hear a similar mood in tracks like 'Juarez' and 'Cruel City', there's a thread of searching and melancholy running through a lot of their work.
Sanderson's voice had a particular quality to it, a bit raw and introspective, that defined their sound. The band's music often felt like it was built around that vocal delivery and McCarthy's guitar work, creating something that was part indie rock, part something more atmospheric.
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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