Good Looks

Bummer Year turns 4 today. Come hear it front to back Monday, April 20th at , along with a few extras from the same era. Free show, doors at 7. First night of our three-week residency.

April 8th is a loaded day for us. It’s the day this record came out after many years of trying to make it exist. We had just played our first ever sold out show that night at , and a couple hours later I got the phone call that Jake was at the hospital. He’d been hit by a car and had a skull fracture and traumatic brain injury.

I’m so grateful for how it all unfolded from there. Jake made a complete recovery, and honestly a pretty fast one. And the Austin music community came through in a big way with the GoFundMe, which made a really hard moment a lot more manageable. We’ve never forgotten that.

We recorded Bummer Year in August of 2018 in Dripping Springs at , with Dan Duszynski. Our drummer Phil had been in the band for exactly two weeks and had barely learned all the parts. Jake, Anastasia Wright (our bass player at the time), and I had spent a furious couple of weeks getting him up to speed.

Just as we were getting ready to put the record out on in 2020, Covid hit. While certainly not the greatest tragedy of that era, it was a total gut punch. We decided to wait, not really knowing how long it would be. I’m so glad we did. Bummer Year brought us so many incredible things: our first review, our first serious US touring, getting to play , and so many other incredible festivals and venues.

Thanks for listening and for being here. We love y’all.