Grayscale

New Stars Of The Scene Fighting To Keep Their Demons At Bay.

- Will Cross

SOMETIMES, BANDS COME ALONG AND LIGHT UP THE WHOLE SCENE. Philadelphia’s Grayscale are that band right now. Raised on a cocktail of pop-punk, emo and ’90s alternative rock – the five-piece’s debut album ‘Adornment’ is a masterful hybrid mix of those influences, but as frontman Collin Walsh tells us, it’s been one hell of a journey to get here.

“We played together in high school, messing around in our parents’ basements, that’s how it started,” he begins, but there was more at play behind the scenes.

“There are bands who write albums where all the tracks sound super similar to each other. That works for them, but we don’t pre-plan things. It’s cool that we’re so open and not genre specific – I like bands that change up their sound.”