Austin Sound

The Distant Seconds: your arrival and your debut album – Spectral Evidence – is a blessing to ears, a welcome entry to the overwhelmed trough of band slop, and a really excellent piece of rock and roll. Finally, an Austin band and an Austin record that celebrates the past while rocking in the present; and not the stupid unnecessary we-wish-we-were-in-leather-pants style rocking, but urgent twitchy punch-you-in-the-throat rocking. So many bands try to pick and choose influences to create a sound that’ll cater to the whims of a demographic, but it feels like the Distant Seconds just wrapped their arms around the rock canon to play honestly great rock and roll. Equal parts hip, punk, and classic, the result feels like a missing piece of the rock and roll puzzle.