I play the electric bass in The Loyalists, a noise rock band from Oakland, CA. We're a four-piece — bass, guitar, drums and cello (the cello player also plays guitar on some songs) — and we pride ourselves on making a pretty foul racket.
We've got a new album, our second — Ride The Trashheap of Sound — coming out in a couple months, and we've been playing the songs out at shows for a while, but this is the first recording from the album that we've let out of the box: "Shamfrancisco."
We're pretty excited to put this record out. We've been working on some of these songs since we recorded our first album, First of the Mohicans, back in 2013, so they've had some good time to marinate and mature.
Our buddy Scott Evans (Antisleep Audio / Kowloon Walled City) engineered, recorded and mixed for us (again) because we love the guy, and we love his work.
I'll be crowing more about this when the album comes out (we're pressing up some 7" vinyl pieces too). In the meantime, this is just a taste.