Defeater - Travels CD boyscott " blends simplicity and complexity

" blends simplicity and complexity into a charming jaunt of nimble fingertapping and agile between-the-lines drumming

Gélinas and Pompey — themselves experienced producers — created the powerful and intricate worldscapes of TIDE/TIED

“This is improvisation-driven music

wholly unconcerned with genre

grounding the unusual self-dueling riffs and balancing the bright compositions with tasteful fills and immaculate syncopations

Defeater - Travels CD boyscott " blends simplicity and complexityTravels is a record that almost didn't happen. I got a call one day from Jay Maas telling me that he had some good news and some bad news. The good news was that all of the audio on the album was fully recorded and the bad news was that they didn't have any vocals done and they weren't going to happen. Right there, at that moment this record and band were about to never exist. Thinking back on it now, over eight years ago, it's a bit surreal to think