Real Close Ones

The M's formed in early 21st century Chicago. Things progressed quickly then, and some accolades followed for tunes that started as simply as a hum in a head and flowered into a shared scheme. The M's operated in extremes. Whether clunking along in their doomed shuttle bus, recording in the swampy air of an abandoned cafeteria, or later in their frozen Andersonville studio, the Salvation Ice-box; hardship and levity came and went with the seasons.

Now, the M's find themselves in a new neighborhood with new history and new faces. These new faces exist in the songs on Real Close Ones, born from the band's passage through the world as musicians, men, fathers, husbands, sons, friends, baseball fans, carpenters, drummers, guitar players, producers, authors, real estate moguls, and whatever else they are. The faces in these songs are as real as any, and they are as familiar or as unfamiliar as we are to ourselves.