Description:
With any new band, you can pretty much use their personal background as a guide to their sound. Knowing that the members grew up in, say, Vermont, or cut their musical teeth in Brooklyn, should clue in you on their musical path; if some of the group ended up studying music in college, that's another sonic clue. Hand-picked by a hot producer to be the next big thing? That offers up more than a few hints.

The Urgency, thankfully, do not sound anything like anything their history would suggest.

They are not a jam band or an indie-rock group. They are not part of some hot (and soon to be forgotten) music "scene." Their music, far from pretentious or willfully convoluted, takes a fair amount of its influence and energy from post-hardcore bands such as At the Drive-in and Glassjaw (with more affinity for melody), as well as groove-oriented groups like 311 (with better lyrics and less hippy--and no hip-hop--vibes).