A side project of king collaborator/drummer extraordinaire
Zach Hill (
Hella,
Marnie Stern, El Grupo Nuevo,
the Ladies,
Team Sleep,
Holy Smokes,
Wavves, etc.) and guitar virtuoso Nick Reinhart of
Tera Melos,
Bygones came to fruition in Sacramento, CA. With a similar sound as
Hill’s solo debut, Astrological Straits,
Bygones’ debut was a blur of spastic math rock and warbly pop vocal melodies released by Sargent House on June 23 of 2009. Simply titled
By-, the album was issued on CD and vinyl, and pictured
the Dirty Projectors’
Amber Coffman eating a sloopy joe on the cover. ~ Jason Lymangrover