New Orleans’ Globe Innovator Pretend features Keith Ferguson (vocals/acoustic guitar/keyboards), Parker Hutchinson (keyboards), Matt Martin (acoustic guitar), Arthur Mintz (drums), and Alex Smith (bass). The ambitious quintet, which cites R.E.M. (they admittedly took their music group name from the R.E.M. track of the same name), Radiohead, as well as the wealthy blues aesthetic of the hometown as affects, created in 2002. A 12 months later, World Innovator Pretend issued Match for Faded on Renaissance. The hype surrounding them became popular, and by 2004, Warner Bros. provided them a agreement. An appearance in the 1st annual CMJ Cleveland along with a slew of UNITED STATES tour times coincided the June 2005 launch of World Innovator Pretend’s appropriate debut, Punches.