Acid Dad

Acid Dad originated in Brooklyn's East Williamsburg neighborhood, infusing contemporary garage rock with psychedelic elements by amplifying its more hallucinatory qualities. Straightforward melodies anchor their compositions, yet layers of echo and reverb enrich the guitars while the musicians probe surrounding sonic environments. Their 2018 self-titled debut distilled this approach into concise trippy guitar lines paired with garage-punk momentum, whereas Take It from the Dead, released in 2021, expanded into broader explorations marked by intricate guitar exchanges.

Vaughn Hunt on guitar and Kevin Walker on drums established the group in 2014 after previously collaborating in another band and seeking an outlet more aligned with their personal goals. Hunt and Walker encountered like-minded guitarist Danny Gomez at a drag event titled Bath Salts held at the bar Don Pedro, and Gomez soon completed the early roster. The trio delivered their inaugural performance as Twincest on Halloween 2014 and uploaded original material online within weeks. Bassist instability persisted from the outset, leaving Sean Fahey as the sixth player in that role less than a year after the first show. By then, relentless New York City performances had built a local following, prompting the February 2016 release of the EP Let's Plan a Robbery. The band assembled a makeshift studio inside a cabin owned by Walker's grandfather in upstate New York to record the project, then promoted it with fifty concerts across the United States over two and a half months.

Gomez departed by the close of 2017, prompting Fahey's shift from bass to guitar and the arrival of JP Basileo on bass. Basileo remained through the March 2018 issuance of the band's first full-length, Acid Dad, via Greenway Records. That same year they also produced the limited-edition one-sided single "Living with a Creature," featuring etched artwork on the reverse. By 2020 the lineup featured Hunt and Fahey on guitars with Trevor Mustoe on drums. The musicians constructed their own studio in Queens, New York, mastered guitar building, and pursued video art, developments that shaped the writing and recording of Take It from the Dead before Greenway issued the album in June 2021.