Congratulations is a four piece band from Olympia, Washington. The group consists of Jordan Ingram on piano and lead vocals, Abigail Ingram on bass guitar and backing vocals, Matt Buscher on guitar, and Chad Austinson on drums. The band has been described as “moody indie rock with occasional meanderings into jazz and country, jumbling it all together and spitting forth a sound uniquely their own.”
Jordan moved to Olympia in 2003 and was soon playing in various groups, gaining his footing as a piano player and a songwriter. Jordan and Chad met while working together in the Waxfire, and they soon began playing together just to get through the gloomy Olympia winter. Jordan asked his sister Abigail, whom he had played music with since they were kids, to play bass with them and Congratulations was born.
After a year or so, they started talking about recording the songs they had been kicking around in their heads. Matt Buscher of Romanteek and sound engineer of Neanderhall Studios approached them and offered to record them. So, in the winter of 2008, they hit the studio. Under Matt's meticulous eye to sound quality and attention to details, the group put down eight tracks on their self titled LP. Matt later joined the band and after a west coast tour, they returned to Olympia to record new material, eventually releasing their second album, titled “One Billion,” in February of 2011.
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