Lastdayshining

Lastdayshining is a hard-hitting post rock band from Albany, NY. The band’s sound is characterized by expressive instrumental buildups that travel through a range of dynamic changes from quiet lows to bone crushing highs. The band’s thick, lush, reverb doused guitars evoke the cavern sized cavities inside the human heart, while bombastic drums and crunchy overdriven baritone guitar gives lastdayshining a titanic bottom end.
The band released its album The Patchwork on May 14th, 2013. The album consists of six songs, each one composed by a different member of the band. Although there are six different songwriters, the album obtains a uniquely cohesive sound. To promote the new music, beginning Friday, April 5th, the band released one song off the album for free each week leading up to the official release date. 
This release approach allowed current lastdayshining fans to follow along each week and stay up to date with band news, while allowing new lastdayshining fans the opportunity to sample the music for free. A link to the week’s single was posted every Friday afternoon on the band’s Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and website along with an email blast to the band’s contact list. In addition to the weekly single, the band also promoted the album with exclusive content like interviews with the band members, behind the scenes footage of the making of The Patchwork, and individual album art for each song on the album.
Lastdayshining has gone through some major changes in the last few years. In 2009, drummer Gabe Miller began studying at NYU and was no longer around to perform with band. So to take his place, the band added guitarist and longtime friend Eric Tabin and shifted Mike Kendall to drums. Next, Bobby Kendall urged the band to change arrangement and add a baritone guitar instead of bass guitar so to facilitate the change Chris Hardiman moved from bass to electric guitar and Bobby began playing baritone in the band. The only member left unchanged was guitarist Jesse Bulka. Now Gabe fills in and helps manage the band from New York.
In 2008 lastdayshining released it’s first full-length album Our Heated Backs Encircle Us. The band pressed a limited number of physical CDs and toured across New York with stops at New York City’s Arlene’s Grocery, Lit Lounge, and Fontana’s. Other stops in New York state included shows at Windham, Hunter, Tannersville, Hudson, Cobleskill, and Montgomery. The band also played several shows in Lowell, MA and Hartford, CT during the same tour. In December of 2005 the band released a four song EP aptly titled The December EP.