'Shattered' will be Reigning Sound’s first album for Merge and the first full LP by the group since 2009’s Love and Curses.
The band’s principal songwriter/member, Greg Cartwright, has been leading the shifting cast of characters since 2001. This version of the band includes longtime keyboardist Dave Amels, who joined the band seven years ago. Dave proved to be key in putting together the current line-up. of Mike Catanese, Benny Trokan, and Mikey Post
The four flew to Nashville, learned the songs, and recorded them with Greg in a couple of days. They have been touring and playing together ever since, and Shattered which was recorded at Daptone’s Brooklyn studio (engineered by Wayne Douglason) will be out on 14th July 2014.