The Favourite Sons are an indie rock band from Brooklyn, made up of Ken Griffin (former member of Rollerskate Skinny) and four members of Jagjaguwar‘s Aspera. They have released one full length album, “Down Beside Your Beauty”, The four other Sons (guitarist/keyboard player Justin Tripp, guitarist Carmine Degennaro, bass guitarist Matt Werth, and drummer A.J. Edmiston were formerly part of the band Aspera before relocating to New York in 2004 after parting ways with their singer. Werth and Tripp tracked down Griffin in the summer of 2004, only to learn that he had spent the last four years crafting a new repertoire of songs focusing largely on his unique vocals and melodic sensibilities.
Vice Recordings, who had expressed interest from the earliest demos, offered the band a long-term deal. The Sons recorded “Down Beside Your Beauty” in Brooklyn in January, In 2006, they toured with The Drones and Devastations, but pulled out of the tour due to illness. In 2007, they undertook a national US tour with Au Revoir Simone . The band have recently completed work upon a new album. entitled “The Great Deal of Love” which has been released on Low Rent Records.
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