12/05/2025
COMMITMENT - "DEMO"
cassette out now on SRA Records
Commitment aims to peel off listener’s faces, leaving grinning skulls and exposed brains as the canvas for Tati’s indoctrination. The formula is quite simple, but the result isn’t.
Guitarist Jake Smith and drummer Pierce Jordan knew each other for years as friends and musicians in Philadelphia who desired to explore a more straightforward and hard-hitting sound as songwriters in positions they’d played in the past, but never together. Smith and Jordan spent months playing together and getting a feel for each other’s styles and viewpoints, specifically not making choices about a name or which influences to prioritize until the lineup was complete. Smith dragged his lifelong friend Zach Bailey out of rock n’ roll retirement to take up bass guitar. Smith and Jordan knew they wanted someone who had never played in a band before. A newcomer in any position results in a fresh perspective and approach, and at the front of a band typically includes a raw energy that often can’t be reproduced. They found this in Tati Salazar. Tati had mainly existed as a solo musician under the name The Childlike Empress (now known as Le Siren) and had built a significant listenership doing so. Tati jumped in feet first, fitting in so naturally as the band’s vocalist that the rest of the band initially struggled to practice or even correctly perceive their new material without them.
“It’s a lot of me being disillusioned and disappointed by the traps we all fall into and my own self righteousness and selfishness and greed and violence while trying to also believe in humanity and that there is something better in the future if we can all ‘fight against the system.’”
