Augustines

Emotionally charged, stadium-ready indie rock outfit Augustines, later changed to We Are Augustines, was formed in Brooklyn in 2009 by Billy McCarthy, Eric Sanderson, and Rob Allen after the dissolution of the similarly themed Pela. Pela's breakup had prompted McCarthy and Sanderson to pursue the batch of songs that were intended to appear on the ousted group's sophomore outing, and put them toward a new project. The resulting Rise Ye Sunken Ships arrived in August 2011. The album towed the line between the spirited expansiveness of early U2, the lit-heavy heartache of the Hol...