Adding to their volumes of East Coast myth-making, The East Pointers’ anthology of celebratory anthems and incendiary tune sets, Schoonertown, is a natural evolution of playing to ‘hometown’ crowds of thousands the world over, full family kitchen parties and an honest reckoning with heartbreak and victory.
Still channeling Koady Chaisson as a writing partner, Tim Chaisson (fiddle, vocals, guitar) and Jake Charron (keys, guitar, vocals) have alchemised the love, grief and experience of years of musical map-making, traveling, partying and friendship into an album that captures heroic joy, sharp pain, courageous expansion, lonely challenges and triumphant homecoming.
Equal parts origin story and statement of craft, Schoonertown captures the moments that shaped their youth: nights out with the boys, the dizzy romance of first love, sprawling families and small towns, two weeks on in a bleak winter, kitchen parties and vinyl records and tape decks, every mistake, every late night, every long drive, beer and cigarettes and fights, laughing until you can’t breathe, ambition rising like a king tide, the piss and vinegar of youth, the sun emerging so bright over the horizon you have to shield your eyes–the devastation and exhilaration of it all.
“…There’s some kind of magic to their music that always makes me fall in love again every time I hear them.” – SONGLINES
“… high-octane energised music that will run rings around you leaving you breathless and begging for more at the close.” – FATEA
“…a brilliant and multi-layered album.” – SPILL MAGAZINE
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