Sea Urchin

Sea Urchin: Destroy!

Sea Urchin’s debut album Destory! is out now. Created straight from leader Matt Strickland’s painful, awful break up, and co-produced by Katie Von Schleicher, Destroy! embodies the agony, rage, love and tragedy of love gone sour. “I got really really sad. Like so sad. Like so so so sad,” Strickland says. It took rock and roll’s toolbox for him to work out his feelings. Sea Urchin makes operatic rock drama that incorporates ‘50s style garage punk, hardcore punk, pop punk, Frogwave and maybe even sad punk, as the original goal was to have “sad” in every song title.

Strickland, known for his videos for Katie Von Schleicher and Market, assembled an all-star team to back him up. Among the players are Katie Von Schleicher adding vocals and piano, Nick Jost (Baroness) on bass, Julian Fader (Ava Luna) on drums, and  Nate Mendelsohn (Market) on saxophone.