Boyscott

Punctuating wistful, daydreamy indie rock with surfy guitar hooks, Boyscott approaches their songs from a hazy, lighthearted perspective as gentle as ocean breezes. The project first took shape in college dorm rooms and grew into a loose collective. Boyscott finished recording their whimsically drawn 2015 debut Goose Bumps before ever playing live, and continued developing their upbeat, nautical sound on 2024's Spellbound. Boyscott began in 2015 as an outlet for singer/songwriter Scott Hermo's recording experiments while he was attending college in Nashville. Hermo recorded in his dorm room and sometimes enlisted friends to help flesh out his soft-edged indie tunes. Fellow schoolmates and musicians Ellen Ivy McGuirk, Tiger Adams, and John Lewandowski joined him to bring a live energy to Hermo's recordings and together, the five musicians completed debut album Goose Bumps and self-released it in late 2015. When Boyscott began playing live, school commitments kept a solid lineup from forming, but Hermo enlisted a rotating cast of friends and musicians to play shows and go on tours. Emma Willer, who was also a member of bands Lazy Trail and Slumbers, joined Boyscott's touring lineup in 2017, and Davey Alaimo of Bunny Boy joined the touring band on bass in 2019. The band's acclaim grew organically through consistent touring and their album, which caught on in a grassroots fashion. A physical release of Goose Bumps arrived in 2019 as a joint release from Top Shelf Records and Babe City Records. The most popular songs from Goose Bumps accumulated tens of millions of plays on streaming services, which took the group to entirely new audiences both in terms of listenership and attendees at their concerts. Drummer Noah Dardaris joined in on drums in 2022, and the quartet of Hermo, Willer, Alaimo, and Dardaris began work on a recording their next album. Boyscott released a second album, Spellbound, in October 2024, continuing to explore their beachy indie songwriting style. ~ TiVo Staff, Rovi