Philadelphia, PA’s Literature features Kevin Attics, Nathaniel Cardaci, Chris Schackerman, and Seth Whaland. Attics, who’d written for numerous music trades as a teen, Cardaci and Whaland both operated at a house venue in Austin, TX & ran separate small imprint labels, the trio decided to form a band, moving to Philadelphia the group befriended Schackerman who joined the fold.

Autumn of 2013, the band began work on their second album, Chorus, with lauded engineer Gary Olson (whose work includes records by Crystal Stilts, Mad Scene and The Beets) at his Marlborough Farms studio in Brooklyn, NY. As a beautiful autumn turned into one of the harshest winters in recent memory, Olson and the band began stretching out, enhancing the album with studio techniques dating back to the late 60s including true-tape flanging, sending vocals through Leslie speaker cabinets, and the same analog style of automatic double-tracking created at Abbey Road Studios.

The result is an album that is as immediate as it is timeless, full of effortlessly catchy and well-crafted tunes that echo pop legends like Smiths and Orange Juice. All of that time in the studio has resulted in a rich, considered sound that puts the band’s arranging and playing front and center. Chorus is one of the most exciting pop records in years, and marks Literature at true contenders.