Album Review // In Addendum // Sign Here

Self-released

4/5 stars

One of Erie's newest and youngest bands In Addendum have released their debut album Sign Here, filled with psych-pop songs and spacey instrumentals. The group consists of teenage friends Louis Rullio Johnston (13), Elliott Levy (14), Quinn Gould (14), and Lyric Bankes (16), who are all studying music and honing their craft together. The collective displays great range across the effort's 10 tracks, from the lo-fi, Stones-inspired "Country Haze" to politically charged rockers like  "Mountains of Losers" to singer-songwriter ballads like "The Invisible Man." The album's instrumentals are equally diverse – examples include the virtuosic "All The Water In The World" (with its opening quote of the 4th Prelude by Azerbaijani composer Elmira Nazirova), the SWANS-esque "Insubordination/Scythe," and "The Dirty Shogun," written in the style of Built To Spill. Sign Here has a lyrical playfulness that only teenagers could capture, juxtaposed with mature musicianship beyond their years.