Scream From New York, NY by Been Stellar

Scream From New York, NY, released on June 21, 2024, is Been Stellar's first album for Dirty Hit, and the title wears its adopted hometown proudly. The band goes back to 2014, when Sam Slocum and Skyler Knapp started it at their Michigan high school; they carried it with them to New York University, named it after Ben Stiller, and put out a Bandcamp LP called Sells Out and a self-titled EP with "Manhattan Youth" and "Kids 1995" before this.

Dan Carey produced, fresh from work with Fontaines D.C., Wet Leg and Squid, and the album was praised as a standout indie rock debut: guitars that roar and churn, and songs that sound like they were written on the subway at rush hour. "I Have the Answer" is the track that reached the countdowns, and it stuck around into 2025.

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