Real Numbers

The Minneapolis-based True Numbers began in the later 2000s being a classic 1977-inspired punk band that well balanced the melodies from the Undertones using the clipped delivery from the Buzzcocks. The trio of guitarist/vocalist Eli Hansen, bassist John Eggerman, and drummer Adam Blackfield released two information, the “Radio Globe” one in 2008 and a four-song EP in ’09 2009, before that they had a musical modification of center. Their new audio was inspired with the ramshackle electric guitar pop of C-86-period rings like McCarthy and Jasmine Minks, the mod actions pop of Tv Personalities, and 30 years of information by rings also influenced by those noises. Their 1st launch with this fresh strategy was a self-titled eight-song EP released by hometown label 3D Records this year 2010. The trio was following spotted on vinyl fabric with 2011’s “Rip It in Two” solitary on Floridas Dying Information. After a rest, they came back in 2013 using their second 12″ EP, Just Two Can Play. Enough time off hadn’t transformed the band very much; these were still as scrappy and C-86-obsessed as before. Their reappearance on record was short-lived, and it required nearly another 2 yrs before they presented on the Dec 2014 Greatest of most: Period #1 tape comp carried out by Forged Artifacts and independently “Up and About” solitary, that was released on cassette within the No Complications Records singles golf club in early 2015. Later on that same 12 months, Real Figures added a fresh guitarist, Ian Nygaard of Howler, towards the lineup and strike the studio room with maker Matt Castore to start out focus on their initial album, that they entitled Wordless Question. The band place more care than ever before into the documenting process, even heading so far as doubling tempo monitors and adding electric guitar solos. Legendary American indie pop label Slumberland guaranteed the rights release a the record, and Wordless Question strike the shops in Oct of 2016.