Sego

Sego fuse indie rock with alternative dance to craft lyrics-driven songs that swing between exuberant freedom and nervous tension. Their 2014 debut EP, Wicket Youth, arrived on Kitsuné Music and blended dance-pop with post-punk edges, while the 2019 follow-up album Sego Sucks shifted emphasis toward indie rock. Subsequent projects included the January 2020 collaboration “Into the Night” with Big Black Delta, the 17-minute single “Life with Pam” released that October, and the March 2023 track “TANDANG,” which adopted a seductive alt-pop-rap approach.

Hailing from Provo, Utah, singer-songwriter Spencer Petersen, who once studied music at BYU, and drummer Thomas Carroll first relocated to Los Angeles while playing in the indie rock outfit Eyes Lips Eyes. Petersen later began composing independently and, alongside Carroll, tracked the alternative dance-rock EP Wicket Youth. After signing to Dine Alone, the pair issued the second EP Long Long Way from the Fringe in 2015. Their danceable full-length debut, Once Was Lost Now Just Hanging Around, appeared in 2016 via Dine Alone and Raygun Records (U.K.). Later that year the band self-released Hanging Around Remixes and supported OK Go on tour in 2017.

While shaping their sophomore album, Petersen and Carroll expanded the lineup with bassist Alyssa Davey and guitarist-keyboardist Brandon McBride. The resulting quartet recording, Sego Sucks, emerged on Roll Call Records/House Arrest in 2019 and retained stylistic range while adopting a rawer rock stance. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, multi-instrumentalist Kathleen Frewin replaced McBride, and the revised group delivered “Life with Pam” in October 2020. As live venues reopened, the members resumed touring and began recording a new album with producer Nate Pyfer, whose past credits include Kaskade and the Moth & the Flame; the first outcome of those sessions was the playful, indie rap-styled “TANDANG.”