The song ideas were born in bedrooms crowded with samplers, Kaoss Pads and other electronic gadgets. Then the duo moved into Alex Aldi’s Brooklyn studio in mid-2013. Aldi’s studio was the de facto storage house for Passion Pit frontman Michael Angelakos‘ synth collection. Greg and Cason dove into this gear. Much of the record was performed on Angelakos’ hardware.

Tiny Victories was formed in 2010 when Greg Walters met Cason Kelly in a Brooklyn bar. Both had played in a variety of other musical projects for years. Otherwise, they were an unlikely duo. Greg was just back from a six-year stint as a foreign correspondent based in Moscow, Russia. “Journalism and music are both ways of making sense of the world,” Greg says. “Journalism looks outward at what’s happening around you. Music explores your inner life.” Cason had recently moved to New York from Athens, GA, and was doing social work with inner city kids-a different kind of daily struggle. Both were burned out and looking for something new. They each wanted to take their music farther than it had gone before. They decided to start a band.

Haunts tracklist:

1. Drinking With Your Ghost

2. Scott & Zelda

3. Systems

4. Let It Burn

5. This Revolution

6. Austin, TX

7. Proton Pagoda

8. Life Is Boring

9. Our Lady of Route 80

10. Justine

11. You’re Gone

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