Ivan & Alyosha

Although located in Seattle, Ivan & Alyosha produce a sound that’s distinctly Californian, with acoustic instrumentation and shiny vocal harmonies that evoke the Western Coastline’s summery, Southern locales. The music group created in 2007, when single songwriter Tim Wilson fulfilled Ryan Carbary. Acquiring their name from Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, both began playing collectively, eventually planing a trip to LA to record a folk-pop EP with maker Eli Thompson. The Verse, The Chorus premiered in early 2009, paving just how for a wholesome tour and a respectable amount of national hype, including a nod from NPR’s “All Tunes Considered.” Points found again in early 2011, when the music group — right now a four-piece featuring Wilson’s sibling, Pete Wilson, aswell as Tim Kim — released the sophomore EP Fathers End up being Kind and launched another tour. An extraordinary full-length album, All of the Times WE’D, made an appearance from Dualtone Information in early 2013 in the U.S. and the next 12 months on Decca Information in the U.K. After adding Cole Mauro towards the lineup on drums, the quintet documented their good-natured, indie pop sophomore LP, It’s All Simply Pretend, released in the springtime of 2015.