The Reports
Run Into The Night CD - Satellite Transmissions

THE MUSIC

The Reports play infectiously catchy music, it's that plain and simple. With Run Into The Night, The Reports have crafted an extraordinary pop explosion, full of potent hooks and addictive melodies. The album, their first full-length, is rooted more in indie guitar land than their 1998 debut EP (which drew many a new wave comparison). They may have cooled it with the synths - even though they still show up here on a few tracks - but these eleven songs are probably still the catchiest bunch that you'll hear all year. Run Into The Night is The Reports' fully realized work of charming post-punk pop anxiety, full of singing, sweeping melodicism and expansive heart-tugging tunes.

With influences ranging from The Pixies to early R.E.M., Jawbreaker to Shudder to Think, The Reports are an amalgamation of some of the best quirky pop/rock music of recent times, all fused into one. Their aggressive post-punk flirts with new-wave pop through sizzling guitars and snappy rhythms. Like The Pixies, Pavement, or Girls Against Boys, The Reports have a knack for coming up with naggingly insistent melodies, done in new and exciting ways, that make listening to them a downright pleasure. It's a crime that a band sounds this good and the whole world isn't aware of them, but with a little luck that may all change.

THE HISTORY

In a roundabout way, The Reports met over coffee. Literally. The setting was Chicago, 1997. And it was the coffee shop at which singer/guitarist Chris Yambor worked where he met bassist Mark Duston. They soon began to play music together and the formation of The Reports quickly followed, at which time Kerry McDonald (former Christie Front Drive bassist) found himself playing the six-string and Patrick Buehanan (former Mousetrap singer/guitarist) manned the drumset. After recording only three songs with the group, though, Kerry moved to Philadelphia. Seven songs were then recorded and released as a CDEP by the young Chicago based label The Bread Machine, proving to be a spectacular debut for the band that received excellent reviews among the independent music community.

Chris and Mark then left Chicago and headed west to Seattle. Patrick stayed in Chicago, though, and six months later the pair met current drummer Jeff Hellis. In April of 1999, the three-piece headed into Haywire Recording in Portland, Oregon with former Wilco and Pond engineer Robert Bartleson to record the eleven songs that would become their first full-length album, Run Into The Night.

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