37 Houses

Being quarantined together after 4 months of marriage isn't easy, and 37 Houses' debut self-titled album puts a soundtrack to that experience. Songwriter Jeremy Rosenblum put his most intense emotions to music and his wife, singer Erin Sydney put her soul into the emotional intensity of the vocal arrangements. Recorded entirely in their living room, this album is an expression of the tangles that manifest in even the best of relationships. The experience brought out emotionally charged and expressive post-punk reminiscent of Emma Ruth Rundle and Chelsea Wolfe, but with a decidedly more pop leaning sound of Built To Spill and Pulp. While the music is lithe and hummable, Erin’s powerhouse singing takes their sound into the stratosphere. This album is proof positive that pain can create immense beauty. Started in San Francisco in 2021, 37 Houses is an indie pop project that functions as guitarist Jeremy Rosenblum's journal to process the feelings that come out of being an imperfect human married to another imperfect human. Singer Erin Sydney infuses powerful vocals into the poetically pedestrian lyrics and music written by her husband. In the way that all relationships are a blend of two peoples' souls for better or worse, 37 Houses is what that beautiful mess sounds like.