Chapel Hill, NC Indie-rockers Bats & Mice emerge from a 12-year slumber to announce their forthcoming LP titled "PS: Seriously" set for release on May 31, 2024 via Lovitt Records. The band recently shared their latest single "Worst Time," the closing track from the forthcoming 10 song LP which is streaming below. The album is available for pre-order from Bandcamp on the pre-order link.

Bats & Mice is a band that has quietly crept through the music world. Three members of Sleepytime Trio originally formed the band: Jonathan Fuller (Engine Down, Denali), Dave NeSmith (Rah Bras, Committees) and Ben Davis (Milemarker, Committees). They began writing songs together in a new style that pursued their hardcore roots coupled with a more dark and winding sense of melody. However, the music still maintained the energy and drive of their previous efforts. This line-up produced Bats & Mice's first work, a self-titled EP released on Lovitt Records in the fall of 2000, to critical acclaim. Friends Daron Hollowel and Ash Bruce from the band 400 Years joined for a stint in which 'Bats' wrote and released their debut full-length album entitled, Believe It Mammals, on Lovitt in the spring of 2002. That line-up toured to support the LP across the U.S., playing with Fugazi, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, 90 Day Men, Denali, and Gregor Samsa.

In 2004, Luke Herbst joined the band on drums, and the band toured Europe in support of a new EP titled A Person Carrying a Handmade Paper Bag is Considered as a Royal Person. Jonathan Fuller rejoined the group and helped write and record the Back In Bat EP, released in 2010. Soon after, Mark Oates (from Wailin' Storms) took over the drums for Jonathan and helped write new songs as the band headed into the studio to record the basic tracks for an LP in 2012. Then, between babies and careers, life happened, and the project went dark for almost a decade. In early 2023, the band reconvened in Chapel Hill North Carolina's Warrior Sound to rework the original tracking and finish a 10-song full-length record. Named PS: Seriously. the finished LP is their best material to date, and is sure to please fans old and new.

RIYL: Pinback, Denali, Sparta, Fugazi

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