Balance and Composure - With You in Spirit

Available on limited lavender wax 2016’s Light We Made was meant to be the final full-length record from Pennsylvania rock band Balance and Composure. When they announced their breakup in 2019, things weren’t clicking the way they used to; it felt like the group had run out of road. But when the pandemic took hold the following year and ripped away all routine, vocalist and guitarist Jon Simmons started to miss his long-time bandmates. “Once everything is taken away from you, you remember what you like about it, and the pure reasonings of actually just having fun and using music as an outlet,” he says.Eventually, lead guitarist Erik Petersen reached out to his former bandmates—Simmons, bassist Matt Warner, and guitarist Andy Slaymaker—with a simple question: How would they feel about simply trying to write music together again? Everyone agreed—the absence had weighed heavily on them. Along with new drummer Dennis Wilson, the friends gathered in October 2022 and began to write new songs