Nate Ruess | Jack Antonoff | Andrew Dost
New York based three-piece fun. is what happens when three extraordinarily talented musicians come together to create something altogether new and wonderful. Nate Ruess, late of The Format, has teamed up with multi-instrumentalist Andrew Dost and Jack Antonoff, resulting in their ingenious debut, Aim & Ignite. The trio melds an array of diverse inspirations spanning Broadway to The Beach Boys, Nilsson Schmilsson to Pinkerton into an irresistible collection of freewheeling pop songcraft.
One track Walking the Dog, has an early Vampire Weekend and Good Shoes sensibility about it. Be Calm, arranged by Andrew with Roger Joseph Manning Jnr, (Air, Beck, Jellyfish), melds finely wrought chamber-pop orchestrations all brass and strings and multi-tracked harmonies with guitar-fueled rock n roll, resulting in a distinctive sound which simultaneously recalls the past yet remains very current.
