Via Audio

In 2003 the future founding members of Via Audio first encountered one another while studying at Boston’s Berklee College of Music; they subsequently shifted their operations to New York City and began shaping a refined yet airy strain of harmonic indie pop. Vocalist/guitarists Jessica Martins and Tom Deis, bassist David Lizmi, and drummer Dan Molad soon launched regional performances and issued a self-titled EP on Kill Normal Records. Spoon drummer and producer Jim Eno eventually took notice, proposing to track and co-produce the group’s debut album at his Public Hi-Fi facility in Austin, Texas; Sidecho Records issued the resulting Say Something in 2007. Adam Sturtevant stepped in for Molad on the follow-up Animalore, which appeared on Undertow in 2010 with Eno again at the helm. The band’s independently released third album, 2014’s Natural Language, presented the core trio of Martins, Deis, and Lizmi, while Molad—by then the drummer for Lucius—served as producer.