MOKB Premieres Solvents' “Are You Gonna Wait For Love To Leave (Demo).”

"Port Townsend, Washington’s Solvents might be one of the best kept secrets of the Northwest music scene. The band has quietly been recording earnest lo-fi songs for the better part of a decade. Now, the band has released The World Is Not A Vampire: Lost, Demos, Outtakes, Unheard that compiles many of the loose tracks the band has created over the years and three demos of songs that will appear on their forthcoming album, Ghetto Moon, that should be out this fall." Listen here.

Vice Premieres Solvents' New Track "Unslaved And Unrenowned"

"Solvents are a hubby and wifey duo out of Port Townsend, Washington. They filmed parts of Twilight there, right? That's pretty cool. Think of Jacob Black leaping over logs, shirtless, and straight into your heart/pants while listening to the premiere of thisdreamy track right here. Or just think of the sound of a babbling brook, and some apples falling from a tree." Listen here on Vice!

Sound On The Sound premiered Solvents brand new video for "yr ghost writer"

Led To Sea / Solvents - YESSSS!

Thanks for a wonderful evening last night! The Riot Act crew was out in full force to catch Solvents and Led To Sea at Portland's Mississippi Studios last night and what a treat it was. Seeing Led To Sea flushed out as a trio for the first time outside of Seattle was AMAZING, jaws were collected from the floor at the end of the set. Solvents added a layer of scuzz to their music that we've not witnessed, so rad to see them rock out as a fully amplified four-piece!

Pop Matters calls the new Solvents' album a lo-fi masterpiece!

"Based in the tiny coastal town of Port Townsend, Washington, Solvents offer up a compelling mix of acoustic and electric tunes on the self-released debut, Forgive Yr Blood. Built around the vocals and guitar of Jarrod Bramson, filled out with Sascha Landis on drums and Emily Madden’s expressive violin, Solvents take the listener through a varied musical journey. Lo-fi production adds ambience to Bramson’s urgent delivery on songs like “Forgive Yr Blood” and “Empty Vessel Blues”, while unexpected bursts of distortion enliven “Soft Reminders” and “We Were Guests Here”. Through it all, Bramson reveals a strong sense of melody, making the best use of his rough-hewn, often distorted voice and the band’s chosen sonic palette, which is substantive but never flashy. By the time you reach album closer “The Coastal Plain”, with its rumbling drums, siren-wail guitar, and mumbled vocals, you realize you’ve just sat through a record made by a hell of a band. Forgive Yr Blood is anti-arena-rock made perfect. It’s a small-scale, lo-fi masterpiece." David Maine, Pop Matters

Solvents featured as KEXP's Song Of The Day

"We Were Guests Here" is the Song of the Day today over at KEXP:

"Listening to Forgive Yr. Blood, the latest album from Port Townsend-based Solvents, is a folk-punk indie rock joy all the way through. The melancholic, urgently melodic vocals get into your memory and leave elegant lived-in ruminations alongside sharply funny lyrical observations about working class love, life, failure, and desire. This is indie-based pop, but not chilly or arch, more like a warm blanket given by an old friend as you sit down by the space heater in his basement to chatter over old times and flames with a little bourbon. The fact this is music is created by an engaged couple who played together in a traditional Irish folk band, with a friend on drums, in an area known as a laid back, inspired artists community is not surprising.

The middle of the eight song CD is the tour-inspired confessions of “We Were Guests Here,” on which singer-songwriter Jarrod Paul Bramson (also guitar, bass, piano, some drums, etc.) captures that smoking-behind-the-club-after-an-exhausting-set, before-hitting-getting-in-the-van-again mood perfectly. We also asked Bramson about his unique relationship to band-members Emily Madden (violin, vocals) and percussionist Sasha Landis." Head on over to KEXP to download the song and read a wonderful interview with Solvents' frontman, Jarrod Bramson!

Solvents have a brand new video for "we were guests here"