Date Signed: November 2022
Label: Better Company Records
Band Members: Meghan Kelleher, vocals; Sean Seaver, guitar, vocals; Alex Goldberg, bass; Stephen Lin, keyboards; Chris Southiere, drums
Type of music: Indie-Pop
Booking: Bandit Booking
Publicity: [email protected]
Web: divinesweater.com
Blossoming indie-pop outfit, and deliciously named troupe, Divine Sweater say that they are deeply rooted in the Boston music scene.
“Sean Seaver and I went to Boston College together and were in a music club called The Music Guild,” says songbird/frontwoman Meg Kelleher. “I was a big fan of his band, Small Talk, which included our drummer, Chris Southiere who went to Berklee College and Music nearby. Chris and Sean grew up together and had been playing in bands together since high school. I loved going to their shows and knew all the words to their songs.”
Kelleher went to a Small Talk show and, when the singer didn’t show up, she filled in and a great musical relationship was forged.
“Soon after that, we met our bassist, Alex Goldberg, and our keys player, Steve Lin—who had also been playing together in bands since they were in high school—in the Boston music scene,” Kelleher says. “This new lineup was a new band with a new sound, influence, and committed direction. We became Divine Sweater and released our first album in 2019.”
Their latest album, A Time for Everything, is out September 13 via Better Company, after the band worked with Allen Tate (San Fermin, Better Company) on Down Deep.
“He was a really supportive producer during that process and helped make Down Deep our strongest record to date,” Kelleher says. “We were excited to join the Better Company family for that record and grateful to collaborate with a musician we all admired. We also recorded our newest album—A Time for Everything–with Allen and it will be released on Better Company Records in September.”
It’s been a bit of a long time coming; A Time for Everything was recorded in Brooklyn in December 2022, with the songs written over a two year stretch prior to that.
"[The album] focuses on transformation, self-actualization, and wrestling with mortality,” says Kelleher. “Our band did a lot of wrestling with mortality after losing a string of loved ones. I kept hearing this passage read at funerals called ‘A Time for Everything' that reminds listeners that death and change are inevitable.”
