What people have said
Two singles, a few hundred strangers asked to listen, and one thing they kept agreeing on without conferring.
Written about
Obscure Sound reviewed Healing in March of 2026 and called it a warming, atmospheric rock emotion that reminds fondly of The War On Drugs. They passed on Go With You three months later, which is the part that makes the first one worth quoting.
Music For All, out of Brazil, has written about both.
Played
Healing picked up rotation on 104.9 The X (KXNA) and across the WNRN network, twelve stations in all. alexrainbird Music put it in an Indie/Rock/Alt compilation in the spring.
The band has been on Livewire twice · once about where Healing came from, and once in the week before the first live show.
The thing they agreed on
Both singles went out to playlist curators who had never heard of us and had no reason to be kind. Plenty said no, and said why: too laid back, not enough lift in the chorus, too vintage, too easy. Fair enough.
What is harder to explain away is where the yeses landed. Between the two songs, the playlists that took them include On The Road, Indie Folk Roadtrip, Roadtrip Melodies, Funky Road Trip, Indie Rock Roadtrip and Rock Roadtrip. Six different curators, none of them talking to each other, filed these songs under driving.
One of the people who turned Go With You down still described it as a folky roadtrip rock song on the way out. Another, declining, wrote that the late-night driving in the lyrics paired with the guitars for an atmospheric ascent. When the people saying no and the people saying yes describe you the same way, that is probably what you are.
Which would be a neater observation if it had been the plan. It was not. The album covers are our parents leaving their weddings in decorated cars, because that is the photograph each family happened to keep. The songs came out sounding like the road, and nobody arranged that.