Free to Stay

"The hottest new band in the US underground. Beyond brilliant.”
- NME

"Smart, engaging, dance-y pop songs that are both intelligently catchy and indie-rock scruffy.”
- CMJ Music Monthly

"Smoosh is a phenomenon. Couple Asya and Chloe's adorable onstage image with legitimate talent and fun, wiggle-worthy songs, and you have a pop cultural flare-up.”
- Chicago Tribune

"Beautiful, funny, poignant, catchy and inspirational.”
- Alternative Press

Seattle's Smoosh is a sister duo that make exceedingly endearing, piano/synth-based indie pop. Over the last year they have shared the stage with Cat Power [who paid tribute to the band by covering their rap song, 'Rad' at '04s Sasquatch! Music Festival], Sleater Kinney, Pearl Jam, Death Cab For Cutie, Sufjan Stevens, The Go Team! and Jimmy Eat World.

Smoosh write and play music that captures the pure enthusiasm and unadulterated bliss of making art for the joy of it. They work hard, they tour and practice, but they play because they want to. They're pretty inspiring, with their smart, enthusiastic and imaginative pop. Oh, and they're 11 and 13 years old!

'Free To Stay' remains true to their high-spirited approach, with an even brighter, more sugar-coated sound. Smoosh runs through a barrel of emotions well suited for any age, and they also remind us that rock n' roll should be a helluva lot of fun!

The band's first studio-recorded album, 'She Like Electric', brimmed with intensely diverse and magically cohesive pop songs that amazed as they engaged. And, yes, as with their debut, every note of 'Free To Stay' was written and performed by the girls alone.

Smoosh was born of natural curiosity. While the family waited at a local music store to pay for what they had intended to purchase - a violin - Asya [13yrs] and Chloe [11yrs] wandered upstairs to the percussion room. There, they met Jason McGerr [Death Cab For Cutie], teacher at the renowned Seattle Drum School where Chloe now studies, and left with a $600 drum kit, Jason's card and no violin. Asya, having taken several piano lessons that she then aborted because "they made you just play the same thing, and I wanted to make stuff up”, joined in. A small, family-run website was launched that advertised free copies of home recordings.