Formed in North Carolina (though they appear now to be at least partially based in Chattanooga), Sinai Vessel began largely as a singular vehicle for frontman Caleb Cordes, who crafted the project’s excellent 2014 debut EP, Profanity, with the help of a rotating cast of other performers. Following the record’s release, and after a steady stream of underground buzz, Cordes tapped two former high school classmates, drummer Joshua Herron and bassist Daniel Hernandez, to fill out what would become the band’s solidified lineup, and, over the course of a few years, a false start (in which they recorded an album entirely, only to scrap it and start over back home), and a more unified and nuanced artistic direction, crafted the group’s debut album and most wholly-representative release to date, last year’s phenomenal Brokenlegged.
Pulling largely in influence from the beloved and substantive emo and indie era of the late ’90s and early to mid-’00s, Sinai Vessel forge a smart, approachable