Front Bottoms- S/T LP

The Front Bottoms are an American indie band that originated in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey. In August 2007, after Brian Sella (vocals, guitar, lyricist) finished his first year of college, he and childhood friend Mathew Uychich (drums) began playing together under the name The Front Bottoms. Soon after, Uychich's brother Brian Uychich (keyboard, vocals) began sitting in on their practices. Brian asked to join the band, playing an old keyboard he found in the Uychich family attic.

• 1 Flashlight
• 2 Maps
• 3 Looking Like You Just Woke Up
• 4 Mountain
• 5 Rhode Island
• 6 The Beers
• 7 Father
• 8 Swimming Pool
• 9 The Boredom Is the Reason I Started Swimming. It's the Reason I Started Sinking
• 10 Bathtub
• 11 Legit Tattoo Gun
• 12 Hooped Earings

A punk band that uses acoustic guitar, indie-rock dance grooves, Springsteen-y keyboard lines (this they might deny). It’s hook filled, it’s anthemic, it’s confessional. Maybe Neil Young by way of Green Day? The Front Bottoms must have heard some Replacements along the way and it seems like what Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers did for the Boston suburbs these guys are doing for Bergen County, NJ Their songs are filled with rich hooks and clever rhythms, they string riffs together effortlessly into surprising song structures. Take a song like "Maps.” It opens with half a Sex Pistols riff before going into an orchestral flourish on keyboards. Then there’s a verse complete with a hillbilly hiccup in the vocal followed by an arpeggio guitar part and full-on raging synthetic strings that lurch into handclaps and an enigmatic chorus "one day you’ll be washing yourself with hand soap in a public bathroom,” And that’s in the first minute and a half of the song.


The Front Bottoms eponymous debut now available w/ a full album download card."... the album is endlessly fascinating." - The Daily News "Top Ten of 2011" a??This is a pop soundtrack for learning to live in the momenta?? - Los Angeles Times"If you have any love for the early punk style, garage band, mix tape, one mic recordings like I do, then you better take two minutes to discover The Front Bottoms." - www.thevinyldistrict.com