Formed in 2005, The Scene Aesthetic is a two piece group from Washington state formed by Danger Radio frontman, Andrew de Torres, and Eric Bowley. After taking a hiatus in 2007, the band has returned and with their return came a new album and an excellent end of summer tour.

In January of 2005, a band stepped into the scene that made a surprisingly large amount of people rediscover their love for acoustics. The Scene Aesthetic developed a following almost immediately in late 2005 when they posted their first single entitled “Beauty in the Breakdown”. Following the release, in 2006 their debut album, Building Homes from What We’ve Known, hit stores. Their popularity grew immensely to a point that when Andrew de Torres was referenced, it was normally when talking about The Scene Aesthetic rather than his other, more upbeat band, Danger Radio.

In 2007, The Scene Aesthetic released their self-titled, second album compiled mostly of re-recorded tracks from their first album and a few new tracks as well. Following the record release however, in late 2007, the band announced their hiatus because vocalist Eric Bowley was headed to Argentina to do missionary work. During his time there, Andrew focused on his side-project , Danger Radio, and in 2008, released a full length album, Used and Abused.

Good news came for TSA fans in December of 2008 when the band announced via Myspace that Eric had returned from his missionary trip and that they would begin to write and record a new album. On July 14^th, 2009, The Scene Aesthetic released their first record in two years entitled, A Type & A Shadow EP. With their comeback finally underway, it only seemed appropriate that they would tour, which is precisely what they did.

Aptly named The Summer To Remember Tour, TSA has embarked across the east coast after countless pleas from their fans on a tour with The Color Fred (ex-Taking Back Sunday), The Ready Set, Stephen Jerzak and Tyler Brown Williams. Having had an opportunity to attend this tour, it can easily be said that the tour is one that you don’t want to miss. The Scene Aesthetic put on a show that, although the atmosphere is calm, the show itself is vivifying. Their set is made up of both very old and very new songs so that all fans can enjoy, amongst these are “The Alamo Is No Place For Dancing”, a song from their first full length, and “If You’re A Bird”, a brand new song that has yet to be recorded and includes guest vocals from fellow tour-mate, Stephen Jerzak.

It can easily be said that everyone is glad to have TSA back and judging by the size of the crowds being drawn to their performances, they’ve indeed been missed. Having confided in their crowd that they are soon going into the studio to record again, it can definitely be expected that The Scene Aesthetic won’t be going anywhere any time soon.

Feature by Clarisse Hansard