Sunspots

If you pulled the rusting factories, odd urban centers, and dairy farms of Connecticut into a sound, you’d come close to a band like Sunspots. The group has been described as a combination of "rootsy rock with soulful pop hooks" (Eric Danton, Hartford Courant) and is especially known for their dynamic live performances, which range from richly-harmonized pop songs to fuzz rock singalongs. In July 2011, the group will release a self-titled full-length album, which was engineered over seven months by guitarist Matt Sargent. With a quality described as "Motown-meets-Abbey Road" (Karl Messerschmidt, HardwareCityArts) the album presents Sunspots live material within a uniquely catchy and expansive soundworld, pulled from a variety of unusual recording techniques and recording spaces (ranging from the intimacy of live recording with microphones scattered around the living room to late-night reverb recordings in the hallways and stairwells of a borrowed Samuel Clemens-era Hartford mansion).

Hartford, CT