Brighton MA
Chicago, IL
Biography
Matt Kerstein and his crack squad of players – guitarist Jim Turek, guitarist Joe Darnaby and drummer Sam Koentopp – sink themselves into a general mood that feels like sad chandeliers, a cold frost and men sipping glasses of brandy or whiskey in glasses that are almost always empty and in rooms that are dimmed and staring back with an anxious tension. The songs on Amateur Lovers and their new brothers are a combination of these scenes and the anticlimactic (or most interesting) narratives th...
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