This week Literature shares the video for “Kites” from their sophomore album Chorus, out now via Slumberland Records.

Philadelphia, PA’s Literature features Kevin Attics, Nathaniel Cardaci, Chris Schackerman, and Seth Whaland. Attics, who’d written for numerous music trades as a teen, met Cardaci and Whaland at the house venue they both operated in Austin, TX. Cardaci and Whaland each ran small imprint labels and, a million adventures later, the trio decided to form a band. Upon moving to Philadelphia the group befriended Schackerman who also joined the fold.

In 2012, following a single and a track on Gerard Cosloy’s Casual Victim Pile II compilation they released their debut album, Arab Spring. They toured the US in support, and have performed with The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Eternal Summers, Ted Leo, Sic Alps, White Fence, Gentlemen Jesse, Hospitality, and Brown Recluse. They also appeared on Terre T’s Cherry Blossom Clinic.

In 2013 they released a follow-up 7″, “Tie Dye” and contributed a track to Esopus Magazine alongside artists Jens Lekman and The Shins. They also played at that year’s NYC Popfest, which helped cement the buzz that was steadily growing amongst savvy pop fans.

Autumn of 2013 saw the band begin work on their second album, Chorus, with engineer Gary Olson (whose body of work includes records by Crystal Stilts, Mad Scene and The Beets) at his Marlborough Farms studio in Brooklyn, NY. As a beautiful autumn turned into one of the harshest winters in recent memory, Olson and the band began stretching out, enhancing the album with studio techniques dating back to the late 60s including true-tape flanging, sending vocals through Leslie speaker cabinets, and the same analog style of automatic double-tracking created at Abbey Road Studios.

Tour Dates:

8/21 Brooklyn, NY @ Shea Stadium
8/22 Bethlehem, PA @ Shankara Vegan Restaurant
8/23 Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar