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Shores was never intended to be a "band." It had been asound/style that had been obsessed over since the band members' high schooldays.
Formed by drummer John Massel and guitarist/vocalist Brian Przybylski somewherein mid-2008, practicing in rogue basements around the Grand Rapids area andforming in the ashes of band members' prior bands North Lincoln, Wormburner,The Hartford Whalers and more, Shores immediately embarked ontheir first album "Coup de Grace" tracked in just 16hours over two days that fall. After a fairly inactive 2009, the band completedtheir critically acclaimed 2010 release "To Volstead," addingmembers Sean Stearns (guitars) and Billy Bartholomew (bass) to join the fold"for a few shows." Bartholomew's pop sensibility and love of allthings "space rock" [Hum/Failure/Shiner/etc], and Stearns' penchantfor noise [Swans] and sad bastard balladry [Wooden Wand] were perfectcomplements, even almost missing pieces, to what Massel and Przybylski hadalready started, and led to an album described as reminiscent of slowcorechampions Codeine, Red House Painters, Low, Slowdive, June of 44 andothers.
"Volstead-era" Shores found the band exploring strange new loudplaces that they never knew before. "We made a lot of weekend treksthrough the Midwest and East Coast over that time, listened to a lot of Botchand Kyle Kinane, became better friends, learned how to be a band... and in anattempt to translate and make sense of that, and to tiptoe the waters oftracking as a 4-piece, we went back to Cold War Studios [Grand Rapids] withRick Johnson in the spring of '11 and recorded what is now known as the 'Neitherwise'EP," explains Przybylski.
Immediately following the completion of "Neitherwise," the band beganwork on their new "Leavening" LP in the fallof 2011. Having the song skeletons already written, over the course of a couplemonths, the band popped in and out of Cold War Studios, piecing the recordtogether. Keeping true to Shores' form, another record had been completed, withthe members having never actually played the songs together before, only thistime, it came from all four distinct places. The result is a perfect reflectionof Shores' spectrum of influences, exploring loudness, playing with effects andnoise, and raising the bar the band had previously set for themselves.
"'Leavening' feels like a perfect summation/realization of what 'Shores'has come to mean to us," says Przybylski, "but also a new playingfield. It's both a benchmark and a threshold to us."
"Leavening" Track List:
1. Chardonnay
2. Broderick
3. Weak Trees
4. Hinges
5. Greater Than
6. Windswept
7. Escarole
8. Chagrin
Shores Discography:
"Coup de Grace" LP/CD (October 31, 2010)
"To Volstead" LP/CD (October 28, 2011)
SHORES & CHARLES THE OSPREY "Ritual" LP (October 28, 2011)
"Little One / Something in the Way" 7" (covers of Twelve HourTurn / Nirvana) (October 28, 2011)
SHORES / CREEPOID split 7" (March 20, 2012)
Shores Live
7.20 Bloomington, IN tba
7.21 Columbus, OH Tree Bar
7.22 Indianapolis, IN tba
7.24 Knoxville, TN The Longbranch
7.27 Chapel Hill, NC The Cave
7.28 Richmond, VA Strange Matter
7.29 Washington, DC tba
7.30 Philadelphia, PA The Level Room
7.31 Providence, RI Squid Amps
8.01 Boston, MA O'briens
8.02 Brooklyn, NY Big Snow
8.03 Pittsburgh, PA Howlers
8.04 Flint, MI Local 432
8.05 Grand Rapids, MI Mulligans
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