Experimental indie rock with a shot of adrenaline and ginseng - intelligent, intense, and emotional; Sold Short is rock poetry in diving sonic motion.

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âYou can feel the emotion in these guys,â quotes Chuck Twohig, who recently review Sold Short's debut album, BLACK BOX RECOLLECTION. And emotional music is what these guys do best. Close friends Sean Youngman (drummer) and Kenny Shumski (vocals, rhythm guitar) we're just a couple of guys jamming when they decided that they had the passion in them to get serious, all the way back in the seventh grade. They soon met up with Alec Henninger (guitar, lyrics) and John Emery (bass), whom also shared a close friendship and mutual love of music, and over the next 6 years this innocent four-piece would be remaking themselves from the ground up to be rocking, musical machines. They know each other and their music inside and out, and you can feel it on the stage, and in the studio.

BLACK BOX RECOLLECTION is a thoroughly thought out, beautifully conceptualized piece of work of these four busy college students. An experiment in post-hardcore, indie, and emo rock, it took the band to the highest they've been yet. â[Sold Short] has artistic elements that in my view set them apart from anything else out there. They posses the all out screaming energy of punk but they infuse that with artistic passages and instrumental breaks . . . what bands like Yes or Emerson, Lake and Palmer are to Rock, Sold Short is to Punk.â comments Richard Henninger, former singer / songwriter / producer.

The album began as a get-together between old church friends in a studio they recently set up in their basement. They met up and sparks flew in the studio, but the band wasn't ready yet. âWe didn't want to rush something that would be a permanent mark in our career,â remarks Alec. So for the next several months the guys kept pouring out themselves into the souls of new songs and lyrics, experimenting with their own recordings (the opening acoustic track of their debut was recorded in their own studio) waiting for the right time. In January 2005, Sold Short was back in the newly redesigned pro-quality basement studio. Bassist John Emery recalls, âIt was an awesome setup; there was just one problem, it was the basement of a house, with a family trying to live there and sleep there ya know.â Everyone had to make sacrifices, as Alec tells us, âOne or two guys would get together at a time on some random hour of the weekend; Steve [our producer] worked in New York on the weekdays, and we all worked on the weekends, so we'd find ourselves their at 10 at night on a Saturday, sweating after work, laying down bass or guitar tracks, hopefully without keeping up the kids and hard working parents upstairs. It was a a real project.â But, by May that year, BLACK BOX RECOLLECTION was complete. This album marks only the beginning of these long-time friends, who's friendship keeps them growing and challenging each other, and has from day one.

The four band of brother grew up in small town, Brodheadsville, PA, where the local music scene was little but a few high school punk or metal bands. Their influences, too, were largely rooted in punk and metal, though as they continued to play together throughout middle school, high school, and now college, they've expanded into a hugely wide landscape of musical frontiers, perhaps some they may call their own. Traveling locally from areas around Stroudsburg and Allentown, they've defined a sound and a fan base of their own.

Their first gig of all Sold Short originals was in small Stroudsburg club Café Toast, where they soon met up with local favorites Split Fifty. It was with them that they would score find their first doorway to discover the recording studio. âIt was totally alien to us, and looking back we really weren't ready, but that's how you learnâ recalls guitarist and pen of the band, Alec, and such a statement could sum up the career of Sold Short; going in blinded and coming out with a clearer vision. âWe just go out there and do our thing, and hopefully we can learn something and continue to make the best music we canâ remarks vocalist Kenny Shumski. The band kept writing, and with several years of experience under their belt, the studio opportunity rose again, and BLACK BOX RECOLLECTION was born.

Currently, Sold Short is working to further expand their sound and become better song writers, and most importantly, better entertainers. Times are rough while the band remains split up geographically, over a hundred miles apart, and while they juggle the countless jobs between them all. Alec Henninger is attending Drexel University for their esteemed Music Industry program to learn the tools and trades of music production, but the band is based about an hour and a half north, so he makes the commute every weekend for practice, shows, and recording. Drummer Sean Youngman will be attending Temple University next fall, and members John Emery and Kenny Shumski currently are attending Northampton Community College, but will be transferring to Philadelphia soon. The whole gang will be relocating their practice and recording sessions to a new home base in the Philadelphia area where they hope to set up their own recording studio and reach a broader audience.