Via Audio
Rock & Roll Hotel, Thursday, October 11

Drummer Danny Molad, vocalist/guitarist Jessica Martins, guitarist Tom Deis and bassist David Lizmi discovered each other as musical kindred spirits while at college in Boston back in 2003. Within a year, the band had begun performing locally, and its self-titled EP became their calling card. In mid 2005 the band began work on a new album, but the album fell victim to hard drive failures and sporadic recording schedules. It was during this time though that Via Audio began generating attention from some highly established indie rock peers. Death Cab For Cutie’s Chris Walla fell in love with the group after stumbling across their MySpace profile. Being dubbed Walla’s “favorite new band” in Under The Radar was a giant boost to the band’s confidence, but it was admiration from another high-profile peer that would eventually lead to the completion of Say Something.

“Jessica went to a Spoon show, and she went up to Jim (Eno) and was like, ‘Hey, we’re in a band and here’s our CD,’” says Lizmi. Before too long, Eno had taken a specific interest in the group, plenty enough to make a considerable effort to produce the outfit. “We were on tour in the West Coast and he flew out to San Francisco just to see us.” After the concert Eno proposed a deal that the band could not turn down. He invited the group to his Austin studio to help the band record a new album agreeing to only get paid if/when the band got signed.

... The songs of Say Something… reveal a band that has the innate ability to draw from all depths and corners of its musical upbringing. Although each of the three songwriters has their own style, the end product is decidedly Via Audio. Credit this to their raw talent and understanding of how to maintain a seamless, symbiotic creative relationship.