Manhattan

Personnel: Michael Ian Cummings (vocals, guitar); Josh Hubbard (guitar); Noah Rubin (drums).
Audio Mixer: Cenzo Townshend.
Recording information: Electric Lady Studios, New York, NY; Gemini Studios, Ipswich, UK; Sonora Studio, Los Feliz, CA.
Photographers: Shane McCauley; Kelsey Bennett; Pete Volker; Lele Saveri.
Few American cities are romanticized quite like New York, a place filled with tough people in tough neighborhoods living tough lives and somehow, despite all the grit and grime of the big city, making it all work. Adding to the pantheon of albums about the Big Apple, Skaters make their debut with Manhattan, an album of songs about the city and its seedy underbelly. With a sound that feels like a more modern take on the kind of post-punk and new wave that was pioneered in the city over four decades ago, Skaters embrace the sounds the city helped to put on the map as a central part of their tool kit, evoking the languid cool of the Strokes. ~ Gregory Heaney