Division Day
Indie Rock / Alternative
In the summer of 2001, Division Day moved into a house in the Santa Cruz woods without ever having played a note together as a foursome. They turned the master bedroom into a makeshift recording studio that would see the birth of their first EP.
Featuring Rohner Segnitz (vocals, keyboards), Ryan Wilson (guitar), Seb Bailey (bass, guitar, vocals), and Kevin Lenhart (drums), Division Day create a sound characterized by dense harmonies, warm keyboard tones, swaths of angular guitar, and tumbling, athletic rhythms. They've toured up and down the West Coast, recorded at the legendary Tiny Telephone studio, and played an abundance of shows with bands such as Tristeza, Cass McCombs, Xiu Xiu, The Velvet Teen, McClusky, and Dredg. Their latest offering, a six-song EP called The Mean Way In, was recorded by Alex Oana (N.E.R.D., Spymob, Kid Dakota) with assistance from Scott Solter (John Vanderslice, Spoon, Mountain Goats).
Match the lyrical darkness of a more imagistic Leonard Cohen with the furious drumming of Brendan Canty (Fugazi), the tasteful basslines of John Stirratt (Wilco), and the supple, atmospheric guitar shards of Nick McCabe (Verve) and you might come close to approximating the band's sound. It's been said that Division Day has an "ambitious yet loose-limbed" quality akin to that of Yo-La-Tengo, and indeed, when the four band members get together, the room overflows with a childlike enthusiasm, at once playful and driven, for the collective experience of music making.
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