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November 20, 2018

Housewarming: “Looking Back” [PREMIERE]

By: Jack Anderson

Austin pop quartet Good Talk was on the radar of concertgoers for years but only recently did songwriter Nick Ehrnstein shift focus towards his own melodic folk material. Soon joined by two of his former Good Talk bandmates and eventually his own brother, Ehrnstein now had a heavy, rounded out vehicle for his music, and Housewarming was born.

Particularly in the lyrical department, Housewarming identifies as “nostalgia rock”, and heats up Ehrnstein’s light folk stylings with aggressive elements of indie rock. Housewarming gets neighborly with us in Studio 1A next Monday before dropping their debut EP Sasha next Sunday at Cheer Up Charlie’s! Get ready to get nostalgic with a premiere of Sasha’s penultimate track, “Looking Back”!


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