Scam Likely

The band (singer/guitarist Charlee Grider, guitarist Denzel “Ducky” Dondiego, drummer Cary Dean Elger, and bassist Thierry Diatta) owes their “cult-like following” to a fierce devotion to live shows and an ability to bluntly capture the realities and anxieties of contemporary youth. This tenacity has seen them play alongside acts such as Yard Act, Frank Turner, Remember Sports, and Minneapolis’ own Bugsy and Gramma.

Now, the group is feverishly preparing for the release of their sophomore album and intends to continue delivering the message that lifted them from basement shows to an ever-growing audience. The project represents trying to be anything at all in the face of the things that disorient, demean, and disconnect us; still acknowledging all that is disappointing and dull but letting it fall past us anyway, allowing us to pull enjoyment from a world of abscess and excess. As always, the music is about passion and struggle. It is about dancing and laughing, failure, wasted weekends, and washing your hands of all that binds.