TELECOMS - TELECOMS I (2023) Hi-Res

“I hadn't realized I had started putting this album together until I was driving upstate with Zeno Pittarelli in the spring of 2021 as we were coming out of the pandemic. I had three songs I had recorded on my four-track during lockdown that were sticking with me in this fever-dreamy 70's world I was starting to put together after revisiting some records my mom gave me. Zeno convinced me to put the songs out, close to their original rough-and-ready form. I continued to put together a small group of songs over the course of the next year as the project continued to form. I didn't want to do another solo record, I wanted to get different folks and more people involved. Soon after I connected with Abe Seiferth and him and I drank coffee, ate sandwiches and polished the original bedroom recordings. I flew to LA and it rained the entire time, and I met Ryan Pollie and we recorded a song that I wrote two hours before the session. I tried every song in a different key, I re-recorded entire songs three times, I waited months for my piano to go back into tune when the weather warmed up, I wondered if trying a new thing was a mistake- then I went for run and I felt better. I wanted to be in a big room with all of my friends, playing and singing- so I made this album for that - and here we are.” - Sean McVerry of TELECOMS.