Afternoon Naps

Motivated by psych-pop and bubblegum works from the 1960s (and especially by rings like the Discolored Balloon as well as the Still left Banke), Cleveland, OH-based musicians Tom Dechristofaro (vocals, guitar) and Leia Hohenfeld (vocals, keyboards) teamed up to create the Afternoon Naps in 2006. Bassist Mike Allan, multi-instrumentalist Augustus Gus, and drummer Craig Ramsey had been brought on plank to circular out the group’s sugary audio, and the recently extended Afternoon Naps self-released their debut mini-album, Sunbeamed, twelve months afterwards. The group’s sun-drenched, sweet sound — one which welcomed evaluations to Saturday Appears Good if you ask me and the institution — discovered them releasing an individual, “Can’t Stop the elements,” on Cloudberry Information’ roster immediately after, and the music group followed in the solitary with some high-profile gigs, notably in the Athens Popfest as well as the NYC Popfest. All this was plenty of to pique the eye from the Athens, GA-based indie pop label Content Content Birthday if you ask me, which authorized the music group before 2008 found a detailed. The Afternoon Naps’ debut full-length recording on that label, Parade, premiered the following Sept.