Utris

Washington D.C.’s Utris shaped in 1995, when vocalist Andrew Deerin, guitarist J. Patrick Hastings, bassist Deke Shipp and drummer Damon Dwyer had been still students. Afterwards that season they self-released their initial collection of tracks, The Balls Record. Though the initial pressing sold-out and the record subsequently proceeded to go out-of-print, person to person and underground dubbing from the recording helped pass on Utris’ music. In the mean time, the group spent over 3 years in the studio room recording songs; in 1999, these were authorized to Annex Information and early the next 12 months, their second recording The Very long Walk Home, made an appearance. Landscapes was released two years later on.