Indie rock quartet Older Brother has been a Providence DIY staple since 2016. Their most recent 2025 album “The Devil Hangs Around” asks the listener a series of unusual questions: “Do you get overwhelming empathy for characters in TV shows? Do you ever go for a long walk on a short beach after midnight? Do you feel an otherworldly spark on the highways after dark? Is it wrong to be living in a fantasy world of things that may never happen?”
Sometimes evoking nineties alt-rock, sometimes sixties folk, sometimes twenty-teens bedroom pop, the music continues with anxious confessional admissions and images of death from multiple perspectives — a plane peacefully leaving the earth for good, a car violently crashing off the side of a bridge on the daily commute. Their songs frequently mix images of the mundane with that of the sublime, pairing their lyrics with enough earworm melodies and catchy guitar hooks for the ride. Older Brother may provide more questions than answers, but at least they offer consolingly to “rinse away the worries from [your] head.”
the expanded edition of older brother’s 2025 ep, the devil hangs around! 4 tracks from the original EP (recorded and mixed by joni elfers at prism analog in maine), and 5 never-before heard demos (recorded and mixed by mikey bullister at microscopic sounds in providence, RI). thoughtful and catchy indie rock for fans of Arthur Russell, Mount Eerie, Lomelda, etc.
bandcamp download code included!
[cassette/50]
[cd/30]
UPCOMING SHOWS:
under construction :)