The duo toledo_band was raised in Newburyport; they grew up playing guitars and busked on the Waterfront Park boardwalk and in Market Square.
The band comprises singer-songwriters/multi-instrumentalists Dan Álvarez de Toledo and Jordan Dunn-Pilz. The duo was raised in Newburyport and were close childhood friends in the coastal town. Both now in their late 20s, they were together in a car, driving around New York when we spoke, often overlapping and finishing each other’s thoughts.
As to the friendship and the music-making, “The two things are very intertwined,” says Álvarez. “It started with music as a bridge to our friendship and then it became part of our career, or it“We always tried to make sure to balance things out,” Dunn-Pilz adds. “If it ever got to a place where we were not friends anymore and just doing music, it would not work.”
“I grew up in a family where you didn’t talk about your issues, but they were bubbling up for years,” adds Dunn-Pilz. "People have been saying yacht rock is coming back and that’s a big fear of ours to be categorized as that."Álvarez adds that they’re not as grungy as they wish they were."People have been saying yacht rock is coming back and that’s a big fear of ours to be categorized as that.”
“With the new album,” adds Álvarez, “it’s about us growing up and Newburyport is a big part of that. It’s such a landscape, even if it’s not purely mentioned.” “I don't think about things that I'd rather not think about/Cover my ears with my fingers and drown it out/That’s what I did as a kid and it helped me out/I see him again/There’s a ghost in the attic now.”Dunn-Pilz says making the album was healing, but that he’s in a place now with his family where they can have these conversations and move on. “The emotions [in the album] are expressed in an extreme way. There was there a time when I felt that,” says Dunn-Pilz.
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