Total Babes

Christopher Brown and Jayson Gerycz formed Total Babes in Medina, Ohio in 2010 as a pop-punk alternative to their acid rock band Swindella. Gerycz played drums on early recordings by <a href="spotify:artist:6rnbB5fuUuCSsspvFsxIpT">Cloud Nothings</a>, and Total Babes had a similar approach to driving, youthful alternative pop/rock. The group's debut full-length, Swimming Through Sunlight, a collection of gleeful, distorted love songs, arrived on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Old+Flame+Records%22">Old Flame Records</a> in 2011. Follow-up Heydays arrived in 2015 on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Wichita+Records%22">Wichita Records</a> (<a href="spotify:artist:6rnbB5fuUuCSsspvFsxIpT">Cloud Nothings</a>' European home) and was a significantly more mature effort, featuring clear production and more accomplished songwriting and musicianship. The album featured synthesizer contributions by John Elliott (formerly of ambient trio <a href="spotify:artist:45btnwhUWFlR7Op5oTfDPv">Emeralds</a> and founder of the <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Spectrum+Spools%22">Spectrum Spools</a> label), bass playing by Nathan Ward of Smooth Brain, and saxophone by <a href="spotify:artist:6rnbB5fuUuCSsspvFsxIpT">Cloud Nothings</a> frontman Dylan Baldi. ~ Paul Simpson, Rovi