Ticonderoga

Ticonderoga blends myriad influences to create a true post-rock sound. The band records and mixes their songs at home, providing a close comfort and warmth to anyone who comes near the speakers while the band is on the stereo. Any fans of Hood, David Grubbs, Tortoise, Pavement, or Shrimp Boat will love this record.

"No more than two songs into a Ticonderoga set, one thing is obvious: These guys are close. It's in the way they move on stage, the way they nod at each other as they lean into a transition, they way they rotate between instruments a dozen or so times in the course of a gig. More importantly, the bond between Mark Paulson, Wes Phillips and Phil Moore -- bandmates and best friends since grade school back in their recently departed hometown of Iowa City -- manifests itself in the music, with the individual and intricate layers of chiming, four-note keyboards, chunky guitars, lumbering bass and scatter-beat drums connecting, bouncing off and into each other almost spontaneously." --Grayson Currin, Independent Weekly (NC Triangle)