energetic, melodic indie rock with crunchy guitars, dancey beats, catchy lyrics, and consistently solid production

12 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Progressive Rock, POP: Quirky



Details:
What happens when a band delegates responsibility for every aspect of songwriting to every single member of the band for every song? Songs can be discussed, pulled apart, thoroughly reworked, and put back to together in up to two months before they are finished or scrapped. It's a long process.

Driftless Pony Club knows that only too well. The band's four composers, Craig Benzine on guitar/vocals, Matt Weber on guitar/keyboard, Nate Bartley on drums/genius pills, and Sam Grant on bass, each have an equal say in the song-writing process. The result is often neatly structured, tightly performed, quirky, catchy-as-hell rock songs drawing comparisons to Modest Mouse, Archers of Loaf, Superchunk, and The Pixies.

Dubbed Cholera, the 2nd full-length album from Driftless Pony Club represents a culmination of 7 years of trial and error from this exuberant yet exact foursome. Recorded at Blam Recording in Chicago and various locales, Cholera features 12 energetic rock songs whose parts range from quirky, quiet, and melodic to roaring, brash, and anthemic. Guest appearances include Angela Mullenhour of Chicago rock group Sybris as well as members of Chicago bands May or May Not and Mt St Helens.