There are the cheesy, tender love stories and the boring, static ones; the heartbreakers and those head-shakers that never even
make it past that cringeworthy pickup line. Scott Simons and Dani
Buncher know theirs doesn’t fit easy description. Perhaps it’s because
it’s still being written. Sure, several years ago, when Buncher came
out to Simons, they stopped referring to each other as boyfriend and
girlfriend. The music however? That unspeakable connection that bound
them together all those years, carried them through rough patches and
made things work even when everything felt in wild disarray? Well, that,
Simons says, was the singular element of their partnership that not
only survived but blossomed. “It was our therapy,”
Well, that and TeamMate’s effortless
unleashing of ear-wormy nuggets of pure pop precision. The breakout
band’s debut LP, TeamMate, is stuffed full of massive choruses, bright,
shimmering melodies, arena-scale drums and the sort of anthemic choruses
not easily removable from one’s brain.
The Eighties-inflected, “Nothing’s Ever
Over,” by comparison, Buncher adds, “really helped us find our direction
for the album” and “set the tone for most of the new songs moving
forward.”
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