New single “Soft Auxiliary” is out now! You can purchase the 7″ with this song and “Nighttime Girls” on our Bandcamp.
Thanks to James Paris for doing the artwork and Keith Abrams of Pine Barons for mixing these tracks for us!
Album release date:9th March 2018
The Districts are an American indie rock band originally from Lititz in Pennsylvania,. The group formed in 2009 while members Rob Grote, Mark Larson, Connor Jacobus, and Braden Lawrence were all still in high school.
The group self-released two EPs and a full-length album over the course of 2011 and 2012. Late in 2013, after a stint in viral success from a live studio session, The Districts signed with Fat Possum Records releasing an EP early the following year consisting of three remastered tracks from their previous releases and two new songs. By 2014 the group had relocated from Lititz to Philadelphia . In February 2015, the group’s second full-length, A Flourish and a Spoil brought the band attention to the general media. The band mix of jangly indie Americana and blues-inspired rock.
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The Lititz, Pennsylvania-formed four-piece don’t concern themselves with mundane tales. With frontman Rob Grote at the helm, they bellow out wild stories about the vastness, fear and thunder of youth. Everything sounds huge. Grote’s vocal never simmers down, guitars are packed like sardines bursting at the seams, drums threaten to blow the doors down.
If 2015 coming-of-age album ‘A Flourish and a Spoil’ hinted at the band’s big-thinking signatures, new song ‘If Before I Wake’ cements it. Grote chants “I’m just a narcissist!” and claims he’s “too blessed to be depressed!”, like he’s had a spiritual awakening. Every fragment of the track has been pushed up to 100 per cent, blared out to the skies. In just three minutes, it feels like The Districts have contained a lifetime’s tale.
In September 2012, a high-school rock band from Lititz, Pennsylvania, called The Districts took to the stage at World Cafe Live in Wilmington, Delaware, as part of a local battle of the bands competition.
The band took first place in the competition, “The impressive, young band channeled the rock-and-soul vibe of Cold War Kids and Spoon; singer Rob Grote’s searing voice cut across the concert hall, blending with the band’s smartly-arranged instrumental interplay. They do the very Pixies loud-quiet-LOUD thing, but in a more textured way than simply turning their overdrive pedals on and off. A thundering swell cuts, leaving a clean guitar arpeggio floating in space as Grote catches his breath; the verses build in waves, with the heaviness sometimes derived just from Braden Lawrence’s drums. Grote is an intense, emphatic, occasionally bewildering stage presence – he kicks, stomps and snarls, both at the mic and far away – and the entire band hold their own, shuffling and bobbing and giving the overall band a dynamic stage presence.”
Since that night in Delaware five years ago, The Districts have built their growing fan base on exactly the kind of dynamic energy described above. This energy, powered by lead singer Rob Grote’s charisma and emotionally riveting performances, was fantastically captured in a HotBox session of “Funeral Beds,” in 2012, and the band haven’t looked back since.
By 2014, The Districts had become one of Philadelphia’s best new bands, and toured incessantly. They moved to Philly and released their second album, “A Flourish And A Spoil”, in 2015. After the release of Flourish, Grote and the band started working on new music, and have kept busy with local side projects including the fuzzed out punk-garage Straw Hats (featuring Districts’ Grote and drummer Braden Lawrence) and the occasional solo show by Grote.
So its a new song by The Districts, “Ordinary Day.” The band is putting the finishing touches on a new album due out later this year. “Ordinary Day” is the first chapter of a new book in the band’s creative growth. In well-crafted Beatles-esque fashion, the song leads with a left jab, seducing you with its soft open, only to land a quick right hook.
The Districts, from the small town of Lititz have achieved something massive and managed to fulfil their potential seen in the early album release Telephone, and their self-titled EP, the record which really threw them under the microscope and in to the limelight. Luckily for them and us the band only went further to build on tracks such as ‘Funeral Beds’ and ‘Lyla’. Their new album titled ‘A Flourish and A Spoil’ is all in all, a fantastic record. Built on classic rock riffs with the honesty of a band unperturbed by fame or fortune by finding the joy of music in it’s Capabilities. See songs ‘4th and Roebling’ and ‘Peaches’ for the proof.
The Districts perform their single “4th and Roebling” off their new album, “A Flourish and a Spoil.”
The Districts should be your new favourite band if you like ragged US rock, country-tinged Americana with elements of blues and folk. If you like music made by young men who appear to have just stumbled out of bed. with loads of energy and a passion for their music. There are tracks on their debut EP that tap into traditional American musics and amp it up, giving it some contemporary welly, which suggests they are going to remain a cult concern. others where they evince a penchant for rocking out that hints they could be Kings Of Leon big.
The Districts will be your new favourite band if you like ragged US rock, country-tinged Americana with elements of blues and folk. If you like music made by young men who appear to have just stumbled out of bed. For whom languor is an energy. There are tracks on their debut EP that tap into traditional American music and amp it up, give it some contemporary Beef, which suggests they are going to remain a cult concern. And there are other tracks where they have a penchant for rocking out that hints they could be Kings Of Leon big.
The Districts are from a small part of the city known as Lititz PA the band write passionate and honest music about everyday things with a great frontman vocalist
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