Challenger announces May 27 LP + PopMatters debuts new song

Brooklyn's Challenger to release sophomore LP Back to Bellevue May 27

New song "How Terrorism Brought Us Back Together" premieres at PopMatters

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Challenger is an indie band from New York City, helmed by producer/songwriter John Ross and rounded out by a backing band for live performances. Ross self-released Challenger’s debut LP The World Is Too Much for Me in 2012. The album’s epic pop sound drew comparisons to Small Black, Peter Gabriel, and Tanlines. The 405 called it “a wonderfully varied and solid piece of electronica” and Consequence of Sound added, “There is a grandiosity and bombast to each tune, echoing with the noise and reverb of polished sequences and crisp synth lines.”

Back To Bellevue is the band’s second full-length, which Ross wrote and recorded in his childhood bedroom in Florida, on an extended “vacation” from the hustle of Brooklyn life. Challenger’s songs are cinematic, borrowing influences from Ross’ work as a film and television composer. Back To Bellevue features vocal parts from Ian Dudley of Inner Outlaws and Jon Lawless of First Rate People.

The album will be released digitally on May 27, 2014.

Watch the album teaser by clicking here or the image below

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Upcoming Shows: 
April 18, 2014 · Charlottesville, VA – The Southern
April 19, 2014 · Washington, D.C. – High Voltage
April 20, 2014 · New York, NY – Bowery Electric

"Back to Bellevue" "...an easily digestible slice of pop to fit into your daily musical diet." - My Old Kentucky Blog   "How Terrorism Brought Us Back Together" "...crisp, melodic synths and hook-filled choruses invoke a millennial, Yankee version of OMD." - PopMatters

“There is a grandiosity and bombast to each tune, echoing with the noise and reverb of polished sequences and crisp synth lines.” - Consequence of Sound “The loops are brainwashingly good...” - Magnet Magazine “...a wonderfully varied and solid piece of electronica, with a fragile sincerity on tracks like the Fleet Foxes-with-tinnitus 'Are You Scared Too?' under threat by the pounding 808s on full-on neon eighties pop numbers like the title track.” - The 405 “Every song quivers and shakes with a sense that the disc is as important to the quartet as the air they breathe.” - Absolute Punk

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