The Needs

Songs from back when we were all in the city ourselves, together. From four years of dark days, light nights, psychiatric wards, and Marxist reading groups. If it had to boil down to one theme, it seems to be about those things that we just can’t ignore – and there are a lot of them. Captured just in the nick of time before a mini Needs diaspora.

Pagosa Springs:
Konrad – Drums
Evan – Guitar, Trumpet, Vocals
Greg – Guitar, Vocals
Kenny – Bass, Vocals
Jordan – Guitar

Bus:
Konrad – Bass
Evan – Synth, Guitar, Vocals
Greg – Guitar, Vocals
Kenny – Drums, Guitar, Vocals
Jordan – Guitar

See it Everyday:
Konrad – Drums
Evan – Guitar
Greg – Guitar, Vocals
Kenny – Bass, Vocals
Jordan – Guitar

Dialectics:
Konrad – Bass
Evan – Guitar
Greg – Drums
Kenny – Guitar

Still Time:
Konrad – Bass
Evan – Drums
Greg – Guitar
Kenny – Synth, Vocals
Jordan – Guitar

Internalizing:
Konrad – Bass
Evan – Guitar
Greg – Guitar
Kenny – Guitar
Jordan – Guitar

Stone:
Konrad – Drums
Evan – Piano, Trumpet
Greg – Guitar, Vocals
Kenny – Bass, Piano
Jordan – Guitar

Transgressions:
Konrad – Drums
Evan – Bass, Vocals
Greg – Guitar, Vocals
Kenny – Guitar, Vocals

Self-recorded at 2 Prince Street, Brooklyn. Album art by Kenny Korb. Mixed and mastered by Kyle Oppenheimer.

We’ve done plenty of “optimistic” albums through the years so I guess there’s been some negativity bottled up for a while, waiting to be released. The Trump era seems like the inevitable time to sing about facing the apparent doom of our increasingly embarrassing society and jobs and growing old and exhausted and becoming all of it all the while. But it’s cool because it’s the first time many of us have played in a band in years if at all and it is actually quite fun.

Album art by Kenny Korb. Keyboard by Erica Umhoefer on Singalong.
Mixed and mastered by Nolan Eley.
Self-recorded at 2 Prince Street, Brooklyn.