Press:

Your new favorite band is here! Anthem In creates quiet vocals over intense melodies to create a darkly rich and insanely catchy self-titled debut album.
- Ink 19

Every song is a potential hit with a musical formula that is deliciously infectious. It's just damn good music.
- Movement Magazine

Anthem In creates cool and heady pop that is simultaneously hummable and danceable.
- LMNOP

I haven’t stopped listening to it from the second I put it on.
- Loudersoft

The more you listen, the more you get sucked in to a real sleeper LP.
- The Big Takeover

Down made my head spin, what with its special intoxicating pop qualities, soaring in from nowhere and into our grateful ear canals in true sleeper fashion.
- A Limerick Ox

Anthem In is a very talented bunch.
- Amplifier Magazine

This talented 5-piece, led by Allen Orr, crafts smart, danceable songs that take you down with a three-pronged strike to the brain, heart and hips.
- The Deli Magazine

With its disco beat high-hats and lyrics about the "dancefloor" there is no way this song is anything but a chart-topper.
- The Deli Magazine

Bio:

Allen Orr and Ashley Proffitt met in the fall of 2000 in Atlanta and instantly became fans of each other’s music. Allen was in the band Igloo and Ashley was playing quiet solo shows. Over the next seven years the two of them each moved several times to different cities and countries, only to reconnect in New York. Allen had a bunch of songs, Ashley had a Wurlitzer and one thing led to another.

On September 15th of 2007, Allen and Ashley met in a rehearsal space in the Lower East Side, exactly seven years to the day after the two of them met for the first time in Atlanta. They bonded over a mutual love of Def Leppard’s Hysteria, and Anthem In was born.

Ashley knew Keith Vogelsong in Atlanta, where he was fronting The Blue Hour, a band she loved. Keith moved to New York to relocate the record label he runs, Goodnight Records, and about five minutes after he got off the plane, Ashley nabbed him as Anthem In’s bassist. Drummer Paul Petitto was procured by theft from the band he was playing with at the time, Russian Vogue. Rob Miller had just moved to New York from Austin where he was writing his own solo material and turned out to be the perfect lead guitarist, completing Anthem In.

Recording for Anthem In’s debut album wrapped in January of 2008 and was released in June on Quiet/Loud Records.