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Get To Know: Worrier

Nautical naughtiness is afoot.

Pardon the French, but Worrier has their shit together for only being around roughly one year.  Experience is passé between the three men, as each probably has their fair share of war stories from their previous gigs.  Members C.C. Roland, Scott Anderson and Geerome O’Callohan had all previously been in bands before joining forces to make the super-group Worrier.  Their beginnings are actually quite a cute tale.  Roland and Anderson met through a file-sharing program, and after speaking to each other, began touring with each other’s bands in America and overseas. When Roland’s drummer met Anderson’s sister and married, it officially ended Roland’s band Forsake Ya to the Snakes.  Since Anderson’s band Free Diamonds was slowing down, he came to Wisconsin to record with Roland and former Forsake member O’Callohan.  It was musical love at first sight.  Already Worrier has a full-scale assault overseas taking place in late October and is planning a west coast for the new year.

Their debut album, tentatively titled Switching Broken Switches, it set to be released in 2009. You get a little bit of everything in it, from dance beats to erratic drum changes coupled with beautiful guitar parts.  It feels like Worrier wasn’t holding back when they decided to make their first album, and neither should they have.  There’s never a dull or empty moment, even in parts where there’s only kooky noises blaring. “I Am the River” keeps your interest at every second, with different voices coming from all directions and come great guitar riffs blasting you into another realm of music.  It makes it hard to peg a genre for the album to go under.  It’s everything from electronic to straight-up rock and roll and everything in between.  If awesome was a genre, it would definitely be under there.

“Lost Ships” is one of the several nautical-named tracks on Worrier’s album.  The bass line crashes into the sharp snare hits and the lyrics and absolutely dizzying.  There is so much to distract you while listening to “Lost Ships” that you start feeling like one until the song calms down to a simple guitar riff in roughly the middle of the song.  Then you’re right back to the tempest-tossed seas of Worrier.  Bring on the storm laddies.