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Christopher Brown and Jayson Gerycz formed
Total Babes in Medina, Ohio in 2010 as a pop-punk alternative to their acid rock band Swindella. Gerycz played drums on early recordings by
Cloud Nothings, and
Total Babes had a similar approach to driving, youthful alternative pop/rock. The group's debut full-length,
Swimming Through Sunlight, a collection of gleeful, distorted love songs, arrived on Old Flame Records in 2011. Follow-up
Heydays arrived in 2015 on Wichita Records (
Cloud Nothings' European home) and was a significantly more mature effort, featuring clear production and more accomplished songwriting and musicianship. The album featured synthesizer contributions by John Elliott (formerly of ambient trio
Emeralds and founder of the Spectrum Spools label), bass playing by Nathan Ward of Smooth Brain, and saxophone by
Cloud Nothings frontman
Dylan Baldi. ~ Paul Simpson