Bannack creates folk-driven Americana with a roots-pop slant on their debut full-length, Compendium. Made up of three main songwriters who met at the University of California, the live collective write hearty, open-hearted hymns with a fervor that follows the likes of The Head and the Heart and elder locals Edward Shape & the Magnetic Zeroes. Compendium may sum up their experiences as young collegiates, but their natural compositional skills – they wrote and produced the album themselves – demonstrates a confidence one seldom finds on debut efforts.
Bannack will play a record release party at Evidence Film Studios on 1/26. Compendium is also available tomorrow on all major streaming platforms. Juan Rodríguez