Album Notes

Written In A Year With A Lot Of Rain is our first full-length CD. 11 songs of guitar, drums, tambourine and Wurlitzer, all patiently recorded and produced late at night by Craig Costigan in his Garage Majal. Laundry-vacations to the Grand Canyon, doing bad things, and surf guitar love. It follows 2005's Amplifier EP. Both are available now on Beehouse Records.

---------->>>>>>>>>>>>>> My friend George from Complicated Dance Steps described The Spires pretty succinctly in his November post: "I know nothing of this band but they are really making me sad right now and that is a good thing."
This boy-girl act from Ventura creates pleasantly melancholy pop music that takes from (but doesn't bite off of) such acts as The Smiths, Robyn Hitchcock, and Lou Reed. It's pretty empathetic stuff, happy if you're happy, sad with you, if you're sad. But in the end? Just really good...
That's what people kept stopping by and saying to me when the band was playing our Let's Independent! event at Boardner's last month. They'd walk up during their set, grab me by the arm, and mouth those words, eyebrows scrunched up in seriousness. Then for days afterwards, people kept telling and writing me the exact same thing. Everyone. Exactly. The. Same. Thing.
(Radio Free Silverlake)