Illustration of a skull with wildflowers growing from the eye sockets, labeled The Andes Album Out Now

Keep It Together

Retro rock for the weathered soul. Crooked time signatures, '70s mountain haze, psychedelia under the floorboards. Familiar on the surface, something stranger moving underneath.

Video

Live from the B10 rehearsal room

A few friends and a running tape in this stripped down session.

About

The Andes

The Andes sitting on a leather couch beneath a framed Frank Sinatra mugshot

Andy wrote songs in Nashville until the songs stopped sounding like him. He traded the commercial machine for love, pine, and the slow meandering path. The Andes is what drifted back: retro rock with a crooked compass. Sunny on the surface, weather moving in.

Time signatures that don't sit still. Classic rock bones, experimental wiring. Lyrics about the halfway where you haven't yet arrived but there's no turning back. The songs don't tie a bow on anything, because most things don't.

It's not about getting somewhere. It's about the longing for it. If any of that sounds familiar, there's plenty of room at this table. Come down when you're able.

Press

What people are saying

The Andes..."reside inside the quiet, idyllic scenery they're painting"

On the Back Edge of the Beat

"a beautiful, therapeutic sigh of relief"

Rising Artists Music Blog

Music for "...cruising through a canyon in a 1967 Mustang Fastback"

Indie Tapes
Music

Keep It Together

There's a light at the end. There is dark along the way. A song about holding the seams while time does its pulling.

Keep It Together album cover: a lighthouse on a rocky coastline, with the album title reflected in the water below
Photos

In the room

Vocals mid-song under stage lights
somewhere mid-song
Guitarist under red and green stage light
telecaster weather
Bassist playing a sea-foam Fender Precision bass
low end, eyes closed
Drummer behind the kit in red venue light
keeping it together
Guitarist playing a sunburst Telecaster
in the room
Keyboardist at a red Nord Electro 5D
the red nord
Signing The Andes onto the studio wall
leaving a mark
The four members of The Andes
the andes, all present