Dawes - All Your Favorite Bands

180-gram vinyl plus album download

Includes "Things Happen" and "All Your Favorite Bands"

"The power of Goldsmith's words elevates it all to the next level." — New York Daily News

"The choice arrangements are alive with conviction." — Uncut

All Your Favorite Bands, produced by David Rawlings, is Dawes' fourth studio album. Dawes were formed in the Los Angeles suburb of North Hills by brothers Taylor Goldsmith and Griffin Goldsmith (lead vocals/guitar and drums, respectively), Wylie Gelber (bass), and Alex Casnoff (guitar). They were previously in the band Simon Dawes, but after Blake Mills left the group, they changed the name (and added Casnoff, who was soon replaced by Tay Strathairn).

Unlike the more intense indie rock sound they had as Simon Dawes, Dawes were heavily influenced by the gentle, acoustic-based musical trappings and rich vocal harmony of the Laurel Canyon sound (Crosby, Stills & Nash, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell), as well as by the shambling, romanticized Americana of the Band.

The band's second album, 2011's Nothing Is Wrong had a similar feel to the debut and peaked at No. 23 on the Billboard album charts.