Ears Like Golden Bats

UK IMPORT. Ears Like Golden Bats is the third album by Brooklyn-based My Teenage Stride and the follow-up to 2005’s Major Major. The heart of My Teenage Stride is multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter Jedediah Smith. Jed grew up in Massachusetts and at age 14 started playing guitar, soon adding bass, piano and drums to the mix. As soon as he could steal his older brother’s Tascam 4-track, he was writing and recording songs as a one-man band, and by age 18 he had compiled several boxes of tapes and had already written 400 songs. Just over a decade later, he’s written hundreds more, with no signs of slowing down. Although previous releases were mainly the work of Jed alone in the studio, many tracks on Ears Like Golden Bats have been recorded with the help of a stable band.