Homesafe, the Chicago outfit recognized for its emotionally driven punk style dense with layered textures, surfaced midway through the 2010s via the acclaimed Evermore EP in 2016 before issuing the full-length debut One two years later. The group kept up a steady pace of releases into the following decade, delivering further EPs plus the 2021 album Nervous Reaction.
Singer and guitarist Ryan Rumchaks began by playing bass on the road with fellow Chicago punk band Knuckle Puck, then assembled Homesafe around 2014. Tyler Albertson joined on shared lead vocals and bass, Joe Colesby took guitar, and Emanuel Duran handled drums. The band introduced its muscular emo-punk approach across a pair of early EPs, one of them being 2016’s Evermore on Bad Timing Records. After signing with the West Coast indie Pure Noise in 2018, Homesafe channeled its ’90s rock influences into the debut album One. The prior label, Bad Timing Records, consolidated the earlier EPs Homesafe and Inside Your Head into a single 2019 release, after which the band issued the two-song single What’s Mine Is Yours in 2020. Homesafe reappeared the next year with its second LP, the concise yet forceful Nervous Reaction.
