Pittsburgh is a paradoxical place. Once a city characterized by steel, blast furnaces, and factory lines, it is now a booming center for health and medicine nestled into the quiet temporal forests of Western Pennsylvania. It’s somewhat ironic that a city once hidden behind clouds of black, sooty industrial smoke has become a leader in cancer treatment. But though the age of the steel titans Carnegie and Frick has long been over, the city is riddled with the remnants of their empire, now abandoned, decaying, and of little import to the busy citizens, as hard-nosed and as hard-working as they ever were. Pittsburgh is filled with natural beauty, but it is also littered with industrial waste; it pushes progressively forward, and yet in many ways it remains undeniably chained to its past.
It is in this complex and contradictory landscape that Pittsburgh art-punk band Second to Safety make their home, exploring the convoluted curves between nature and industry, labor and capital, politics and spirituality. Their music mirrors these harsh contrasts, not just lyrically or conceptually, but in sharp dynamic movement between harsh, frenetic tones and intricate, even delicate passages. The result is something almost cinematic, without crossing over into post-rock territory, taking the unrefined ethos and energy of 2010s indie punk and infusing it with the sprawling album arrangements of prog. It’s like if Radiohead came out of the 2010s emo-revival instead of the 90s indie-rock world. This, the direction of Second to Safety’s newest LP, “Esther”, is a massive step forward from their more straight-forward 2017 math punk record “Morning Approaches” and a huge departure from the more pop-punk leanings of 2018’s “FINE” EP.
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Members
Sean DeKonty - Guitar / Vocals
Zack Bowman - Guitar / Vocals
Tyler Zelenko - Drums / Vocals
Josiah Wages - Bass / Vocals
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BOOKING: [email protected] -or- @secondtosafety on all socials
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“Unacceptably and illegally loud”
-NY soccer mom
"The content is good"
- Chris Bernstorf
"Who is this? They aren't terrible"
- Someone's Dad
It is in this complex and contradictory landscape that Pittsburgh art-punk band Second to Safety make their home, exploring the convoluted curves between nature and industry, labor and capital, politics and spirituality. Their music mirrors these harsh contrasts, not just lyrically or conceptually, but in sharp dynamic movement between harsh, frenetic tones and intricate, even delicate passages. The result is something almost cinematic, without crossing over into post-rock territory, taking the unrefined ethos and energy of 2010s indie punk and infusing it with the sprawling album arrangements of prog. It’s like if Radiohead came out of the 2010s emo-revival instead of the 90s indie-rock world. This, the direction of Second to Safety’s newest LP, “Esther”, is a massive step forward from their more straight-forward 2017 math punk record “Morning Approaches” and a huge departure from the more pop-punk leanings of 2018’s “FINE” EP.
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Members
Sean DeKonty - Guitar / Vocals
Zack Bowman - Guitar / Vocals
Tyler Zelenko - Drums / Vocals
Josiah Wages - Bass / Vocals
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BOOKING: [email protected] -or- @secondtosafety on all socials
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“Unacceptably and illegally loud”
-NY soccer mom
"The content is good"
- Chris Bernstorf
"Who is this? They aren't terrible"
- Someone's Dad