Released on Paper+Plastick Records
Available for digital purchase on iTunes and the Paper+Plastick website
After years of playing in several New York punk bands apart from each other, brothers Michael and John Vallarelli embarked on a musical collaboration in 2010. Michael called his younger brother and said “I’m going to buy a few keyboards and play weird riffs over your drum beats”. With a deep appreciation for artists like Mogwai, Brian Eno and Explosions in the Sky, the brothers Vallarelli boldly decided it was going to be an instrumental outing. This was the birth of their part ambient, part math rock debut self- titled EP. Combining a love for a variety of different musical genres, the band constructed a formula of melodic keyboards plus rhythmic drums, with a light and dark juxtaposition that they dubbed "spacecore".
After three EP's under their belt, touring and relentlessly playing high energy shows in the northeast, they wrote and recorded their fourth collection “Heights" in the spring of 2015. With songs like “Bean” and “Funhouse” this is the band at their most inspired and focused sounding. These are songs that breathe more and drive further, all together equaling their most cinematic soundscapes to date. The brothers are grown up and "Heights" is a testament to that. The music is an honest and cathartic reflection of who they are, where they've been and where they're going.
credits
released September 25, 2015
All Songs Written by Phone Home
Engineered and Mixed by Geoff Duncanson
Mastered at Old Colony Mastering Studio by Scott Craggs
John Vallarelli- Drums, Percussion
Michael Vallarelli- Keyboards
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