The American Analog Set

A tour with Her Space Holiday, as well as a remix EP, Updates, followed in July 2002. 2003's Promise of Love, which continued the band's gradual sonic expansion with the addition of cellos and female vocals, marked the band's second release for Tiger Style. Hoff was unable to tour in support, requiring the band to add Craig McCaffery before playing shows with Ester Drang and the Album Leaf. Two years later, the American Analog Set signed with Arts & Crafts for Set Free, the band's sixth album and one that found them settling deeper into their more mature sound. It also proved to be their last record for a long time, as the band split and Kenny worked with Ben Gibbard and Broken Social Scene before focusing his attention on his new group the Wooden Birds. They leaned more toward acoustic music and folk while still retaining the restraint and simplicity Kenny had instituted in AmAnSet. They issued two albums -- 2009's Magnolia and 2011's Two Matchsticks -- before ceasing operations. A couple of years later, Kenny, Gillespie, Smith, Hoff, and Ripple got back together and began working on new songs. It was a slow process that took a few years, but they ended up recording the seventh American Analog Set effort, For Forever, and released it on the Hometown Fantasy label in late 2023. The record hewed closely to the sound they had established in decades past, only with a couple songs sporting more forceful vocals courtesy of Kenny. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi

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