Morningsiders

New York City-based quartet Morningsiders craft melodic, narrative indie folk alternately tinged with country, bluegrass, and the mellower side of jazz-rock. Their first EP, Unfocus, was self-released in 2015 without the viral streaming hit "Empress," also from that year. Magnus Ferguson (lead vocals, guitar) and Reid Jenkins (fiddle, vocals) formed Morningsiders as students at Columbia University in 2012, adding Cody Gibson (bass, vocals) and David Su (drums, vocals). Their bubbly, irregular-metered single "Empress" was featured in a Starbucks commercial in 2014 before they ...