New Madrid, AMFMS

From just south of the Appalachian Mountains, in the rolling hills of Athens, GA., comes the roaring young four-piece, New Madrid. Following the critical acclaim of their 2012 independently released album Yardboat, the band signed with Normaltown Records and promptly began work on their sophomore album Sunswimmer.

Recorded during a cool, rainy July, under the direction of David Barbe (Deerhunter, Drive-By Truckers), the aural landscapes forged in Sunswimmer become almost palpable. Combining reverb-drenched vocal harmonies, soaring underwater noise and floating, meandering melodies, the sounds don't exit the speakers as much as they condense and hang in the air like the humid Athens summer that birthed them.


With a rakish frontman evocative of dead 70's rock icons and taut live rhythm section, the Baltimore-DC area band
AMFMS' music straddles a fine line between lo-fi basement tapes and vintage 80's college radio hooks; a strange
place where fuzzy glam or psych seduces and then sleeps with post punk. Even with a name taken from old car
radios with stations tuned far left of the dial, AMFMS' debut songs teem with gang choruses and hooks that seem
determined to escape their lo-fi sonic trappings.