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Brooklyn band ArpLine has been making a splash in the city that never sleeps. Over the past several months and several sold-out shows, including the latest at the Mercury Lounge, their powerful blend of electronics, instrumental landscapes and vivid lyrical imagery rings out with the bravado and essence of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s post punk scene.

With a sound that started in the studio and expanded thrice fold on stage, it’s no wonder the kids are scurrying to get their place in line.

“We are really hungry,” said vocalist Sam Tyndall. “Not to sound weird, but we really want the things that other bands have. We want recognition and to get our life the way we want it.”

That vision to work hard and strive to keep pushing as a band tends to be a common trait in the Brooklyn scene as Tyndall describes it as very competing in a positive demeanor.

“Brooklyn is wild, and everyone works really hard to sound unique, and that is why people keep churning out awesome bands here.”

But as much as the band, made up of Tyndall, Adam De Rosa, Michael Chap Resnick, Oliver Edsforth, and Nathan Lithgow, really shine on stage and projects their musical vision to the audience, it is the studio where Tyndall feels the band is most comfortable.

“Playing live for people is fun, but I just really like to write and record.” Tyndall has always been a fan of recording and the feeling of the pleasures of listening to that medium.

The band just finished wrapping up their debut album and will soon be self-released. With money, recording, and scheduling issues, it took them a long time for this album to become reality. But what came out of the sessions and contemplation was a lot of songs written that could stretch beyond this release.

“We didn’t want to make a record until we felt good about the material,” he said.

Don’t chalk it up to inexperience, Tyndall has been a musician and songwriter for a long time. Growing up with the David Bowie, Brian Eno, and Robert Fripp albums, along with the post punk scene like Wire and Echo and the Bunnymen, he always paid close attention to how songs were written.

“Growing up, I wanted to be Trent Reznor. Later, I wanted to be David Bowie or Brian Eno. I wanted to make it so all I do is write music and become an accomplished songwriter. Then I would sit and listen to Low and kick myself. Then I listened to Scary Monsters, and I got bummed out by the sheer genius of that album.”

ArpLine became a gleam in Tyndall’s eye when he met the rest of the band through a mutual musician. Feeling like the new kid on the block, Tyndall came from Bennington College in Vermont while the other members attended NYU.

Starting out their first sets were standard rock and roll, but as they became more comfortable as a group, their tastes began transforming to its current state and they tried harder to consistently outdo themselves.

By the time they made it into a studio, they instantly ran into obstacles.

“Every time we recorded with various people, we immediately threw it in the garbage can. It just did not work out. But we found someone we liked and recorded in a home studio. All we could afford in a real studio was four songs. So the rest of the album is recorded all over the place.”

Even though the spliced together album was a slight concern for the band, it has not deterred the coherency and overall structure of the album as unity was the glue in its successful outcome.

With the intention of being self-released, the band is shopping around for labels in the hopes to transcend their DIY means of doing business to a stronger focus in making music and exploring potential ideas.