Deer Tick – Born On Flag Day

  • June 22, 2009

Brooklyn via Providence, RI transplants Deer Tick release their highly anticipated second album and follow-up to their acclaimed debut War Elephant (reissued in 2008 by Partisan Records.) Deer Tick is John Joseph McCauley III (vocals, multi-instrumentalist), Andrew Grant Tobiassen (guitar), Christopher Dale Ryan (bass), and Dennis Michael Ryan (drums). Starting out as a drums and guitar duo Deer Tick has since evolved into a quartet featuring two guitars, bass and drums, with three members singing and writing and one composing string arrangements. Born on Flag Day is country-tinged indie rock that tips-its-hat to Americana music and the eccentricities of rural living.