Enablers began when Pete Simonelli asked guitarist Kevin Thomson to collaborate on a joint spoken word/musical project. Joeseph F. Byrnes accepted the invitation to play the drums and guitarist Joe Goldring joined the band. Their first album, End Note, (on Neurot Recordings) revealed qualities previously unseen in the spoken word/rock genre. Flirtations with heavy sounds and improvisational soundscapes defined End Note. The release of Output Negative Space (Neurot Recordings) in 2006 saw a band and its sound fully realized. New dynamics and new explorations in vocals, rhythm, and te… read more
Enablers began when Pete Simonelli asked guitarist Kevin Thomson to collaborate on a joint spoken word/musical project. Joeseph F. Byrnes accepted th… read more
Enablers began when Pete Simonelli asked guitarist Kevin Thomson to collaborate on a joint spoken word/musical project. Joeseph F. Byrnes accepted the invitation to play the drums and gu… read more
Fitting to its name, the San Francisco quartet Enablers writes songs that are equally manipulative and encouraging to our darkest desires. The band made up of journeyman veterans of Swans, Tarnation, Nice Strong Arm and Toiling Midgets merges dramatic and flowing melodic soundscapes – of which SF Gate calls "possibly the world's best power trio" – with the visceral spoken narratives of underground literary veteran Pete Simonelli. It's almost as though the band's fluid and often soothing music exists to distract our better instincts while Simonell… read more
Fitting to its name, the San Francisco quartet Enablers writes songs that are equally manipulative and encouraging to our darkest desires. The band made up of journeyman veterans of Swans, … read more
Fitting to its name, the San Francisco quartet Enablers writes songs that are equally manipulative and encouraging to our darkest desires. The band made up of journeyman veterans of Swans, Tarnation, Nice Strong Arm and Toiling Midgets… read more