or Swift’s hometown of Cottage Grove, Oregon, wherever we were, we would always be getting in the studio together. Whether it was New York City or Nashville or L.A. and European tour did not end The Arcs’ recording work.Īuerbach says, “Every time we would get together, we would be in the studio making music. The 2015 release of the group’s debut album Yours, Dreamily, - which won praise from Rolling Stone, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, and NPR, among others - and a subsequent U.S. Multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Richard Swift, noted for his work in The Shins and his production of such artists as Nathaniel Rateliff, Damien Jurado, and Valerie June, came on board to complete the lineup for what ultimately became a new band. The Arcs were founded out of sessions for what was initially envisioned as a new solo album by The Black Keys’ singer-songwriter-guitarist Auerbach, with Leon Michels, the mastermind behind the soulful El Michels Affair who was a member of the 2010 touring edition of The Black Keys, and his boyhood friends and longtime band mates Homer Steinweiss and Nick Movshon lending support. That brotherly bond of listening, playing, and recording culminates in The Arcs’ second album, the neo-psychedelic soul-rock odyssey Electrophonic Chronic, released on LP and CD and digitally by Auerbach’s label Easy Eye Sound. We’d spin these records, we’d play ’em real loud and listen, and it would inspire us - endlessly.” We’d listen to old soul records and garage and Jamaican records. We would pull out the 45s, and we would flip through the records. Spinning records was a huge part of what we did and what we connected on. Dan Auerbach says of what makes The Arcs tick, “The relationship between everyone was born out of loving the studio and loving vinyl.
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