Maritime

Me: “I have not heard any good new music lately, its kind of depressing”

Tac: “Have you been listening to that Indie Feed podcast I subscribed you to?”

Me: “No, I totally forgot about that.”

Two days later…….

Me: “Hey, I kind of like that band Maritime”…………….

Maritime; a band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin has recently made a third album titled “Heresy and the Hotel Choir.” They are currently touring about, check them out right here for tour info and to hear their music.

A little something about them (straight from their myspace page):

“here’s why you’re looking at something through fresh eyes, and why Maritime is, too: Things settled, as things do. Justin Klug took the four-string slot, and longtime contributor Dan Hinz—he played guitar on Vehicles—became full-fledged member Dan Hinz. (He is known to his bandmates and the Japanese as “Chicken Dan.”) And the band started writing songs like bands should—in a room together, rocking like the young people they still are. When these four got done writing songs, they didn’t need to recruit people or scramble to get a lineup together. They just went out and played them, together, and shot them full of life. THEN, as is the proper etiquette for these things, they started recording them, enlisting the help of producer Stuart Sikes, who’s worked with lots of bands that don’t sound like Maritime, including Cat Power and Modest Mouse.”

They have a straight up guitars and drums and American boys kind of sound that I like. Also, every time I listen to the song “Love Has Given Up” I get this association from unknown origins to the movie of “Romeo and Juliet” (the cool one).

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