Someone needs to check Nashville, Tenn.’s water supply, because the only explanation for the incredible diversity within the city’s
current music scene might be some sort of hallucinogenic creativity drug delivered straight through everybody’s taps.
The latest case in point is Cherub, the high-energy Indie Electro Pop duo of Jordan Kelley and Jason Huber, who have lit up YouTube with millions of views of the clip for their single “Doses and Mimosas” and stormed up the charts with their Columbia Records debut album, Year of the Caprese.
Kelley and Huber met at Middle Tennessee State University while both were enrolled in the music-education program. In 2010, the pair turned their five-year friendship into a musical partnership when Kelley emailed Huber seven tracks he’d written and recorded. The following year, Cherub released its first EP, Man of the Hour. In 2012 after a relentless road grind, Cherub dropped its digital-download full-length, MoM and DaD. The band had conjured a big buzz (on the road and online), and Columbia Records took notice, signing the duo at the end of 2013 and re-releasing “Doses and Mimosas,” which rocketed up Billboard’s Rock Airplay and Alternative Songs charts.
At least part of Cherub’s success can be attributed to the fact that the duo has not limited its exposure to a single audience type, opening shows for Electronic groups as well as Indie Rock/Jam bands, including Sound Tribe Sector 9 and Umphrey’s McGhee. The Columbia connection hasn’t hurt either; just after the May release of Year of the Caprese, the label reissued Man of the Hour, making it available digitally for the first time. Cherub now has a touring band to flesh out its sound and a mind-blowing stage production to keep even the heartiest of partiers fully engaged in the proceedings.
Don’t be put off by the cute name; Cherub is anything but cherubic.
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This article appears in Oct 21-27, 2015.
