Kevin Bronson on October 9th, 2013

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Almost three years after the release of their debut EP, L.A. four-piece State to State is back, reaching for sky. The quartet’s expansive sound owes to a handful of bands you saw in stadiums 10 or 15 years ago, and on the tensive new song “Comprehension Headache” frontman Shea Stratton sings as if he’s pleading to the masses as Michael Schneider drums as if he’s trying to move them. Stratton, Schneider, guitarist Andrew Orvis and bassist William Driskill have a couple more singles planned leading up to the release of a full-length in 2014; State to State’s Yorke-ian complexities mark them as a band capable of transcending formulas.

||| Stream: “Comprehension Headache”

||| Live: State to State plays the Viper Room tonight along with the Vim Dicta, Echoes De Luxe and Feast of Fetus. Buzz Bands LA’s Kevin Bronson DJs.