Scout

Scout began in the first ’90s after vocalist/guitarist Ashen Keilyn and drummer Nigel Rawles decamped from Michigan, headed east to NEW YORK, installed with local people Rimas Remeza (bass) and Steve Shiltz (electric guitar), and began gigging around city. Region indie Deep Elm took see and released Scout’s debut 7″ in 1996. “Plague Canines” was wish pop defaced by Replacements affects, however steadied by Keilyn’s exclusive voice, which occasionally suggested a much less strident Patti Smith. Scout jumped to Chrysalis for the 1998 EP Someplace Will be Fine and came back a year afterwards using the full-length APPEARED LIKE advisable at that time; it was the very best example yet of Scout’s alluring choice pop. Remeza and Shiltz departed amid the touring and advertising for Idea, so when Scout came back with Oct 2003’s This Soft Lifestyle, they were being a trio. New guitarist Brian Silverman helped refine and sometimes toughen Scout’s sound, and Lifestyle was hailed as Keilyn as well as the band’s most powerful, most accessible functionality up to now. That fall, the trio embarked on Scout’s initial nationwide tour.