Loose Buttons

Loose Buttons are a four-piece of lifelong New Yorkers who have spent most of their lives together trying to pull the rabbit out of the hat. On You Came To See Magic, their new eleven-song album, the trick is figuring out what remains when the lights come up: the friends who stuck around, the person on your side of the bed, the promises you’re still trying to keep, and the strange realization that somewhere along the way you actually built the life you were pretending to have. Praised for their “ultra-catchy downtown rock n’ roll” by Stereogum and “sun-dappled garage sound” by The FADER, You Came To See Magic finds Loose Buttons looking past the illusion and toward the people and places that have made all of it feel real, riding in the left lane toward forever. “We’ve been trying to pull the rabbit out of the hat for most of our lives, squeezing it into sub-three minute songs and hoping it lands,” says Eric Nizgretsky. “Somewhere along the way I realized that if you do that long enough with the people you love, it stops feeling like a trick. That’s the forever in it. You came to see magic.” Loose Buttons have shared stages across North America with Del Water Gap, Palace, DICE, Wunderhorse, Last Dinosaurs and Been Stellar. To celebrate the new album, they returned home to stage the first-ever live concert in the 130-year history of NY’s Russian & Turkish Baths, selling it out in minutes and filling it with magicians, mentalists and, naturally, a grown man in a bunny costume.