Favourite Sons

The Favourite Sons is an indie rock band from Brooklyn, made up of Ken Griffin (former member of Rollerskate Skinny) and four members of Jagjaguwar's Aspera.^[1] They have one full length album, Down Beside Your Beauty, which was mixed by Victor Van Vugt (P.J. Harvey, The Fall, The Pogues)^[2].

The four other Sons (guitarist/keyboardist Justin Tripp, guitarist Carmine Degennaro, bassist 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.^[3]

Bassist Matthew Werth and guitarist Justin 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.

Gold Standard Laboratories offered to put out a 7 single in early 2005. Shortly thereafter, the Sons were approached by James Oldham (head of the UK indie Loog Records) to release a four-song single in Europe entitled the Treason EP. With less than ten official shows under their belts, the Sons headed off to Europe to tour in support of Treason.

Upon their return to New York, Vice Recordings, who had expressed interest from the earliest demos, stepped forward and offered the band a long-term deal. The Sons recorded Down Beside Your Beauty in Brooklyn in January, with Victor Van Vugt coming in to handle mixing duties the following month.^[4] In 2006 they toured with The Drones and the Devastations, but pulled out of the tour due to illness.^[5] In 2007 they undertook a national US tour with Au Revoir Simone and Voxtrot.^[6]

References

External links

• Official website