Album Notes

Listeners are invited into a world built on Jimmie K Boucher's candid lyrics and Brian Angely's captivating guitar riffs. Joe McLaughlin's bass playing, perfectly layered with Scott Speer's powerful percussion, forms the foundation for their sound.

Built on a by-chance friendship, Untyde began in 1998. Angely, originally from Philadelphia, had been working on new material while adapting to his new home. Jimmie, a Los Angeles native, was tending bar while pursuing an acting career. They met poolside at their apartment complex, and soon found friendship and music together. "I was playing the acoustic guitar…Jimmie just started singing a poem that he had written over the chords I was playing. At that moment we both knew we needed to be writing music together." claims Angely. After two years of performing their music as an acoustic act, the two began auditioning rhythm sections to complete the band.

Scott Speer and Joe McLaughlin grew up together in a small suburb of Springfield, Massachusetts, starting their first band at age 10. As founding members of the popular band Dead Reckoning, they gained notoriety among fellow New England musicians. The two have recorded professionally at Long View Farms Studios (of Aerosmith and The J. Geils Band fame). Wanting to take their music to the next level, Speer and McLaughlin decided it was time to seek out a guitarist and a front man in the prominent Los Angeles music scene.

Los Angeles provided an answer to their demand, bringing the two strong friendships together as one family of music. From 2001-2003, Untyde played at most of the major L.A. clubs including The House of Blues, The Roxy and The Viper Room. Though the band is no longer together, their music lives on.

"Shine" was featured over the opening credits (and the dvd menu) of the Ryan Reynolds / David Paymer independent film "School of Life". "Drinking Song" was featured in MTV's dating show "Dismissed".