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Photo: Nightshades From left, Dylan Ranney, Caleb McAlpine, Andrew Judah and Nathanael Sherman First and foremost, Kelowna band Nightshades is “having a blast” on stage. After forming the band in early 2023, the four-piece band is set to release their debut full-length album, Reducer , with a concert at Red Bird Brewing. In recording the album themselves, the band worked to recreate the sound from their live shows as closely as possible on the record.

“A lot of songs that are from this album, Reducer, basically just came from playing a lot of live shows and figuring out the arrangements throughout the year by playing them live,” said Nightshades member Nathanael Sherman. “We wanted to capture that live sound that we had honed in playing a lot live last year. We wanted to be able to capture that energy.



” To do this, they recorded in their own practice space “live-off-the-floor,” rather than recording individual instruments separately and mixing them later. “It's kind of a motto of how we're wanting to write, and how we've been writing, which is essentially just to let the live versions that we make while practising in our studio, how can we capture that live feeling and that informs what ends up being recorded,” Sherman said. While they labelled themselves Nightshades in January 2023, band members Sherman, Andrew Judah, Caleb McAlpine and Dylan Ranney have been playing together in some fashion for years.

They've put out two EPs, It's Not Weird and Yellow an.

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