They made their late night television debut performing "Dreaming" on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on October 28, 2013. "Dreaming" was included on the FIFA 14 soundtrack. The song was released as the first single off their debut, self-titled EP. 23 on Billboard 's Alternative Songs chart. Working with producer trio Captain Cuts, the band released their debut single " Dreaming" online on May 16, 2013, reaching No. After relocating to Los Angeles to further their musical careers, they met Oregon natives Joe Intile and Beau Kuther. Mike Kamerman, from Marlboro, New Jersey and Sean Scanlon, from Verplanck, New York, had been playing in various bands since 2007. The band consists of Sean Scanlon (vocals), Mike Kamerman (guitar), and Beau Kuther (drums).Īfter their debut single " Dreaming" charted at number one on The Hype Machine, Smallpools' self-titled debut EP was released via RCA Records on July 16, 2013. Give it several spins up top and pre-order Letting Go here.Smallpools is an American indie pop band formed in 2013. While it might not change your mind about LA, there’s nothing fake about the way that “Million Bucks” latches onto your brain and refuses to let go. I’ve never really had that perception of LA myself.” “But I don’t know how nothing could possibly be real in the whole city. “It’s a cliche about Los Angeles that the weather’s great but everything’s fake,” Scanlon said. They were still things that happened to me, but they were kind of wrapped up in code.”įollowing 2013’s self-titled EP and their 2015 album Lovetap, this is one of the first offerings from the newer, more straightforward Smallpools is a microcosm of the band’s latest move, given that it’s literally about finding something real in an unexpected place. “Those initial EPs was more about quirky, fun lyrics. “I wanted this album to be about more real, situational type of things,” Scanlon said. Scanlon says that the new EP aims to be more frank and accessible than their earlier work, serving up real-life situations that fans can relate and dance to in equal measure. The song comes from the group’s upcoming EP The Science Of Letting Go which drops on August 4. ![]() And it doesn’t hurt that Scanlon has a much more traditionally pretty set of pipes than the singing Smoker. “Million” takes all the hookiness of an inescapable summer hit like the ones peddled by the Chainsmokers, but cuts out the drop for layers of woah-ohs, walls of synth and guitars riffs run through effects pedals until they practically sparkle. And with songs like “Million Bucks” - which we’re premiering today - the band seems to be on the right track. The kind where they are out front to take the lion’s share of the praise and the brunt of the criticism. When both acts were up-and-comers, well before The Brothers Smoke dropped their much-maligned viral hit track “#Selfie,” Smallpools just happened upon a (genuinely great) remix that the producers shared on Hype Machine.īut beyond that admittedly pretty cool moment, the joyous indie-poppers still have more of their own hits to make. Though a lot of Chainsmokers more-recent moves carry a faint whiff of the mercenary, Smallpools relationship to the production duo formed early on and in a genuine, internet struggle sort-of way. We were like a proud dad, watching their kid play soccer or something.” ![]() It was nice to kind of sit on the sidelines. We have to take all the criticism and praise. “Whenever we get something big for our own band, we have to be the ones to perform it. ![]() “That was fun,” said frontman Sean Scanlon when I spoke to the band over the phone this week. ![]() Smallpools have already had one of their songs performed on Saturday Night Live, even if they weren’t in the famed Studio 8H when it happened.Īs co-writers of The Chainsmokers’ torch-song-for-treadmill-runners “ Break Up Every Night,” the Los Angeles-based trio got to watch their song go out to millions of viewers from a motel in Rochester, NY.
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