Tribe Society

Tribe Society came together in New York during 2015, built around the surviving musicians from Boston’s Gentlemen Hall, an indie synth-pop outfit. Their sound pulls from an unpredictable range of sources that includes hip-hop, psych rock, icy electronica, industrial pop, and expansive, stadium-scale alternative rock rooted in the 1990s. The group’s roster lists vocalist Gavin McDevitt, bassist and guitarist Rory Given, synth and keys player Bradford Alderman, drummer Phil Boucher, and synth and flute player Seth Hachen. They assembled in the first months of 2015 right after Gentlemen Hall disbanded. Operating from New York City, the band members have characterized their charged, mutable pop creations as “falling somewhere between MTV and LSD.” They moved quickly to gain attention by releasing a favorably received cover of Yung Thug’s underground track “Stoner” on Lokal Legend, an imprint of Island Records. Observers have drawn parallels to Imagine Dragons, X Ambassadors, and Awolnation, while also citing Peter Gabriel, whose influence surfaces on the dreamy ballad “Pain Told Love” that includes a guest vocal from Kiesza, the Canadian-born electro-pop singer now based in Brooklyn. March saw the arrival of their mixtape Delirium Sonata, with the debut EP Lucid Dreams following in June 2015. The subsequent year brought the nine-track mixtape We Sell Drugs, which contained the single “Smoke Out the Window.”