The Record Company Play Loud 2LP

The Record Company have outgrown the home recording of previous records and enlisted producer Dave Sardy (Fall Out Boy, A Perfect Circle, Modest Mouse) to work with them on their third studio album, Play Loud. The result is a sonic growth both in music and in songwriting, highlighting an ever-evolving band bringing rock back to the masses.

The Record Company's raw and righteous rock 'n' roll was unleashed on its Concord Records debut album, Give It Back To You, in February 2016, which was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of Best Contemporary Blues Album. The Record Company's popular success was matched with enthusiastic critical acclaim. "Caught halfway between the stomp of mid-century rock & roll and the soulful kick of Delta blues, the Record Company kick up a raw, rootsy racket," raved Rolling Stone. "The scuzzy, 10-track set meshes the group's biggest influences," wrote Entertainment Weekly of Give It Back To You, "the early electric blues rock n' roll of John Lee Hooker, staccato lyrical delivery akin to The Stooges frontman Iggy Pop, and Rolling Stones-style grooves."

The band formed in LA after a late night of hanging out as friends listening to records on their bass player Alex's back porch with drinks in hand and speakers in the window. The spinning of a crackling vinyl copy of John Lee Hooker's album "Hooker N' Heat" at about 2am - coupled with singer Chris Vos's stories of a trip to see Iggy & The Stooges at The Palladium in LA - inspired the three to get together the next day and jam together. That following afternoon they decided to hang some mic's up in Alex's living room and start recording. "We listened to the playback that first day of recording," Vos says, "and decided right then and there that we had to be a band."