Anberlin

http://www.myspace.com/anberlin

Anberlin (Winter Haven, Florida)

In today's instantly downloadable and quickly consumed culture, bands like Anberlin are a dying breeed. Over the course of six years and four full-lenths (including last year's B-sid compilation Lost Songs), the band has estabished themselves as one of alternative rocks's most exciting acts and as a band who refuse to limit themselves to one specific scene or sound...and it's paid off.

If the band reinvented themselves with last year's sprawling album Cities-which debuted in the Billboard Top 20 and sold 34,000 copies its first week of release-they've transcended that sound with New Surrender. In fact, their latest album that shows the band reconciling all of their seemingly disparate moods into a cohesive blend of music that will lull you to sleep with gentle harmonies one minute and shake you to the core via raw, distortion-drenched rock fiffage the next.

Lineup: lead vocalist Stephen Christian, bassist Deon Rexroat, lead guitarist Joseph Milligan, drummer Nathan Young and rhythm guitarist Christian McAlhaney