Formed in early 2004 with Nick Walmer recording song ideas on a 2 track Boss recorder with the hopes of putting together a band. " I wanted to create something experimental and I suppose one could deem progressive, but envelope it with pop rock aesthetics,"

Nick was hoping to find a keyboard player to complete the sound and be able to compose in a minimal vein while still sounding full.

Stuart Hodge, a friend and ...  read more

Formed in early 2004 with Nick Walmer recording song ideas on a 2 track Boss recorder with the hopes of putting together a band. " I wanted to create something experimental and I suppose one could deem progressive, but envelope it with pop rock aesthetics,"

Nick was hoping to find a keyboard player to complete the sound and be able to compose in a minimal vein while still sounding full.

Stuart Hodge, a friend and soccer mate of Nick , soon joined forces in a highschool spanish class. The boredom and impossiblities that we faced learning Spanish inevitably led to the need to form a group.

Stuart new a drummer, and they decided since he used to be Amish or Menanite he would be a perfect fit.

The first session the boys (Nick having just turned 15, Stu being 16 or 17, and Lee being about 1999 in wisdom years) birthed three songs.

King's Highway, Not Gunna Get it, and a song that will probably always be forgotten.

We tried making a bass player out of clay, but nothing happened.

We were already on the phone with Nate Wilson , because he's the only person at the time that plays bass besides Nick.

Geoff joined on guitar, songwriting, and producing/engineering to help arrange Nick's often erratic compositions. The balance was epic. Much better than their first group No Essentials and Bad Rabbit.

The first recording session yielded the songs "Stand Up" , "Untitled" , and the verse part for "Don't Solve the Crime " .

These were copied to cassette by Nick for an analog feel and handed out to some friends.


Shows ensued, everyone learned a thing or two, and we got super lucky and played a show with Murder By Death, which made us feel high on life.

Before the epic show with Lee, we saved up money from previous ones to record with Eric Green. We recorded live as a four piece, with Stuart over-dubbing his keyboards usually later so Nick could help tweak the sound before hitting "not-tape".

Several songs were left cut from the album due to creative differences, and the resulting LP was 7 or 8 songs in length early 2006.

The first EP recorded with Eric Green was in 2005 and titled "Stand UP EP" . It featured a broken black and white piano the boys had found with a microphone on it and The Resolutes electrical taped to the keys".


We went on to lose our drummer brother lee shortly after this show and or the Fat and Skinny Tire fest.
He left on good terms, and we went on to change styles drastically.
Favoring a more Built to Spill sound but with darker stream of conscious type lyrics that were meant to be seen on paper as art, not just read.

This EP featured Four songs, and a few un-released tracks have yet to surface. No printings of any of the Resolutes have surfaced except for white CD-R's with Nick's Art or Geoff's caligrophy , or home-made casettes.

The EP will be re-issued on Vinyl and given out with the first 200 pre-orders for Geoff Haase and Nick Walmer's current band.

More will be announced, when we feel like it.


R.I. P. Lumpy. My condolences to his family. Any time someone vital to the Indiana music scene goes on to another life, his musical guidance and soul lives on.

Peace.

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