Closebye Tickets

Both born in Dallas, Texas in 1997, Jonah Paul Smith and Julian Paint Smith met in elementary school. Their connection was cemented over a cafeteria organic orange juice debacle at Booker T. Washington High School for Performing and Visual Arts. Upon moving to New York City and enrolling at The New School in 2016, they formed a band and released the EP “Boring the Camera” under the name Pueblo in 2017.

By meager means maturing and by all means aging, Closebye have brought jungle gym refinement to their debut album, “Lucid News.” The record’s multiple sessions took place in Bearsville, NY (with producer Tim Bright), Fort Worth, TX, Austin, TX, Fort Greene, Brooklyn and Ridgewood, Queens. It features drummer Charlie Culbert and multi-instrumentalist Ian Salazar, with musical contributions from Kate Davis, Robert Ellis and Pearla. Mixed by Steve Vealey, “Lucid News” is a testament to the band’s ripening sound — sweet, sharp, pithy and painless, like the Texas oranges upon which their destiny is staked