Artist Information

• Label: Good Friend Records
• Genre: indie
• Hometown: Asbury Park, NJ
• Influences: Wilco, early Coldplay, Young the Giant
• Sounds like: Grizzly Bear, Alabama Shakes, Wilco

Biography

Since their 2015 inception, New Jersey-based indie rockers Lemats have been steadily infiltrating the New York music scene. Now, poised for breakout and with more shows lined up, the four-piece is preparing for big things.

Forthcoming EP Apples and Oranges eschews oversimplification and easy genre-characterization for a dynamic live sound that features unexpected tempo changes, thrumming jump-around-in-the-mosh-pit riffs, and just a pinch of sonic weirditude. And though it deals thematically with introspection and challenges, it never loses its sense of fun.

In that way and more, Lemats is a band of polarity. Poised comfortably on razor-thin lines between indefinite genre-bending and elements of traditional jazz and alt rock, they find ways to counteract their sobering librettos with lightheartedness; an auditory compass for navigating life because, sometimes, we all need help balancing. Says singer/lyricist Frank Calabrese: “Music has always helped me get through life, in a way. I’ve always reverted back to what my favorite lyricists have said. I hope the music I make can do the same thing for other people.”

Recent Press

• Vents Magazine
• Live in Limbo
• Earbuddy
• Ear to the Ground
• New Jersey Stage
• Cool Dad Music

Social Links

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Instagram

Upcoming Shows

• July 3rd // Red Bank, NJ // The Downtown
• July 13th // Asbury Park, NJ // Asbury Brewery
• July 14th // New York, NY // Pianos
• August 4th // Brooklyn, NY // Cobra Club
• August 9th // Asbury Park, NJ // Asbury Lanes
• August 17th // Brooklyn, NY // Caffeine Underground

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