Bio

Produced, mixed and engineered by board-wiz/musician Ed Ackerson at Flowers Studio in Minneapolis, Historionics is a genuine groundbreaker of an album, and with the band planning on hitting the road soon, there\'s no time like the present to remind music nuts about this up-and-coming local outfit. Helmed by brothers/songwriters Adam Payson and Travis Arthur and ably backed by drummer Micah Thor and bassist Brian Gruidl, SIG comes off with a post-new wave blast that produces a feeling akin to being bounced around in time musically; from the heady, experimental days of the \'80s to some unknown, heretofore undiscovered future genre in the blink of an eye. Opener \"Get On With It\" immediately establishes the band\'s original, past/present musical assault, with futuristic, robotic blasts of synth, ringing guitars and an undeniable post-disco throb. These guys remind you of the best of experimental, new-wave-y outfits from the era they draw their initial inspiration from—from the obvious (The Cars, The Clash, The Phones) to the subtle (The Fall, The Alarm, 12 Rods), all while managing to avoid any of those band\'s personal quirks or personal and/or political aspirations. \"Robots Are Dead\" is (lyrically) a rocked-up, Devo-esque coda to The Buggles\' \"Video Killed The Radio Star,\" while \"Seven Dials\" is a soul-warming, hypnotic slice of power pop a la The Church. I\'d even go so far as to say that SIG is forging a sound here that hints at the direction INXS might have gone had they continued in the mod-pop vein of \"Don\'t Change\" and had Michael Hutchence not given new meaning to the term \"just hangin\' around.\" All in all, So It Goes are a solid, pro outfit with guitars and keys that range from soothing to paranoid in a flash, bolstered by smart, poetic lyrics and unabashed New Wave romanticism, all backed by a constant, gut-thrumming bottom end. Catchy, hook-a-riffic modern rock \'n\' roll with a hell-in-a-hand-basket attitude and honest, well-crafted production and musical craftsmanship. Maybe the past is the future after all ... Check \'em out at soitgoesband.com\" --The Pulse