Grey-Eyed Girls

2009 release from this band led by Tim Cohen and Shayde Sartin. As simple as it sounds, the duo first bought a tape machine five years ago. When at first that failed to produce any concrete cuts, Cohen focused on his previous Avant-Pop band, Black Fiction, and Sartin split his time between session and live work for such bands as the Sky green Leopards, Papercuts, and Citay-not to mention his close friend Kelley Stoltz, who ended up releasing The Fresh & Onlys' debut single in early 2008. With so much music hitting shops in such a short time, one might think the band has a problem with quality control. Quite the contrary; Sartin and Cohen are very careful about what they release. And while the duo writes and records the band's songs, the arrangements are usually fleshed out with guitarist Wymond Miles, drummer Kyle Gibson, and back-up singer Heidi Alexander.