The Waiting Room Lounge

One For The Team

w/ The Pendrakes, Malpais, & Hand Me Down Kids

On One for the Team’s debut album, Good Boys Don’t Make Noise, the band tackles the pesky problem of aging with big guitars and even bigger hooks, fusing sugar-sweet melodies and grinding electric guitars to anthemic lyrics that deftly chronicle adolescent unrest. And it;s not over. The band is still scared as hell: scared of responsibility, relationships, and the “real” world that looms large on the horizon of young adulthood. Hailing from Minneapolis, Minn., One for the Team started practicing and recording in the spring of 2005. The band’s main songwriter and lyricist, Ian Anderson, planned to use The Team as an outlet for the poppy material he deemed unfit for his other, heavier band, Aneuretical. Accordingly, The Team has embraced Anderson’s pop aesthetic wholeheartedly, but manages to avoid heavy-handed sentimentality. Instead, the group is taut and earnest with their emotions, and the simple sincerity of Anderson’s lyrics bind the record together. At its core, Good Boys Don’t Make Noise is a musical bildungsroman for all ages, it’s an album for anyone that feels like they’re never going to stop growing up.