Staying Power
“People ask us, ‘Why has your band kept going so long?’,” says the singer and guitarist. “We don’t have a straight answer. It’s organic. I don’t think about it. It isn’t as if we get up every morning and have a board meeting, ‘Yep, we’re going to stay together another day’. That isn’t how it works.”
He may demur. Nonetheless, there is something extraordinary about the group’s longevity. Formed in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1984, the indie three-piece have outlived almost all their peers. What’s more, they’ve done so without ever slipping into pastiche or repeating themselves. This is made clear on new album Fade, among the best they’ve released.
