Empires

Chicago indie rock and roll group Empires began in 2007 when guitarist Tom Conrad, formerly of pop-punk act the Academy Is…, contacted vocalist/songwriter Sean Vehicle Vleet about composing music together. On the year ahead, they added guitarist Maximum Steger and drummer Mike Robinson in to the flip and documented their debut record, Howl, that they provided as a free of charge download on the internet site in 2008. Their self-produced mixture of punchy garage area shades and soaring, tuneful songcraft quickly gained them a pursuing and they continuing their D.We.Y. strategy by launching their following EP, Bang, as some regular digital singles before a physical discharge in early 2010. In 2011, Empires inserted an unsigned performers contest kept by Rolling Rock whose awards included a journal cover shot and a major-label agreement. The group advanced to the ultimate four functions, but was ultimately knocked out. During this time period, they finished their second recording, Garage Hymns, that was released individually that same yr. Sensing it had been time for any switch, the bandmembers shifted gears both within their songwriting and general sound, heading right down to Tx to utilize veteran maker John Congleton on the third album. Acquiring cues from past due-’80s alt-rock like My Bloody Valentine and Nick Cave & the Poor Seeds, they documented the smooth, noir-ish Orphan, after that signed a cope with Isle imprint Chop Store, which released the recording in Sept 2014.