New Maryland-based indie band Housing Co. recently released their debut album “One More Day.” The album has 12 songs with a run time of about 40 minutes.

The band’s four members — Trey Niccolini, Ethan Cohen, Connor Lewandoski and Connor Howes — have only been in the band for around a year.

They began playing together around August of 2021 and officially formed the band in the spring of 2022. Their genre of music is an indie vibe similar to artists like Dayglow, Peach Pit and Cage the Elephant.

Niccolini said the band is unique because all members come from different backgrounds and that they all like to listen to different genres of music. 

“There’s just that different influence coming from each of us and then adding our own parts on to each song we create a mix of everything,” Niccolini said. 

A lot of the songs on the album radiate a strong summer vibe. The opening song, “One More Day,” is a great look into what the rest of the album is going to look like. It starts off on the slow side but then builds up into the following song “On the Otherside.” 

Another song on the album, “Roller Coaster Love Machine,” screams summer. It’s one of those songs that you roll the windows down and blast while driving.

“‘Roller Coaster’ was probably the song we were all into the most and were all really excited about,” Niccolini said. “We’d all just be sitting there freaking out, which is always so fun when you’re recording.”

Howes said “Roller Coaster Love Machine” was another very collaborative track. 

“I brought ‘Roller Coaster’ in as an idea, but Ethan and Trey wrote the drum part, Trey wrote lyrics and runs for it and Lewski wrote all the leads,” Howes said. “That one holds a special place in my heart.”

Another track, “Selfish,” starts off with only guitar — and then incredibly strong vocals and a great drumbeat enter. After the first verse it turns into this fantastic, upbeat song.

At the end of the song, you can even hear drummer Cohen say “I want one more. I’m sorry, give me one more, there was one big mess up in that one,” a fun little insert.

Another notable song on the album is “Severn Hall.” In an interview, Cohen said it was written in the dorm room that the band was started in. Cohen notes in an interview that it was one of the only songs where the entire band was in on the writing process.

“It’s the only song we have in 3/4 in the entire album,” Cohen said. “We started off with like a slow song, and ended up with more of a dance kind of scream at the top of your lungs, summertime, windows down, music.”

At the end of the album is “Persephone,” which Niccolini originally wrote. Niccolini said that on one day of recording there was a growing frustration with the song.

“We just kept throwing stuff at the wall and nothing was sticking and it was terrible,” Niccolini said. “We were so over this song and we were like ‘we should just cut it.” 

Fortunately, the following day, Lewandoski and Niccolini worked on the song together and pieced together what’s heard on the album. It does a great job of bringing a lot of that high energy heard throughout the album into one final song.

“Most of the songs on our album, none of them really sound like the other one, so like all of those influences are coming together and creating a sound for us that is different even within each song,” Lewandoski said.

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