Connecticut’s Disarm is the result of years of friendship finally clicking into place. Guitarist Adam Szulczewski tells No Echo that the band’s core—himself, Shane, and Tim—has been tight since college, playing together in past projects like Tri-State Era and Native Wildlife before things stalled out around 2017. It wasn’t until late 2024, when new riffs started circulating, that something stuck. “When we all got in a room for the first time… the chemistry felt better than anything we had tried previously,” Adam says.
With Tim stepping into vocals and bass and Nick (Sundots, The Refectory, Ourselves Alone) joining on drums, Disarm quickly honed in on a sound rooted in their formative years. “We grew up listening to late ’90s alternative and early/mid-2000s emo,” Adam explains, citing influences like Rival Schools, Quicksand, Chavez, and The Appleseed Cast, alongside newer bands like Balance and Composure and Title Fight. While there are touches of post-hardcore and shoegaze, the focus is on melody, texture, and dynamics.
That approach comes through on their debut EP, Silver City Songs, named after the Meriden, Connecticut, practice space where the material took shape. “That’s where we really connected on the music,” Adam says. Recorded with Ryan Pelegano in New Britain, the band took their time dialing everything in. “It took us from April until December to feel like we were really finished.”
Lyrically, the EP reflects a more grounded perspective—“getting older, settling into long-term relationships, letting go of toxic ones, and figuring out how to move on in a healthy way,” as Adam puts it.
Coming out of a consistently active New England scene alongside bands like Dagwood, Class Ring, and Disfigure, Disarm isn’t reinventing anything—they’re refining it. Silver City Songs feels less like a debut and more like a band finally landing on exactly what they’ve been trying to do all along.
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