S - SEAN (VOX, GUITAR)
C - CORY (GUITAR)
A - ALEC (BASS)
B - BRANDON (DRUMS)

That’s right—isolate the first letter of each member’s name and you’ll understand where the melodic, jangly outfit has taken its name. And yet, for as close as the band members are, it still took years before deciding to work together.

Frontman Sean Camargo, whose parents immigrated from South America as teenagers, was born in Elmhurst, Queens. His lyrics are colored with nostalgic memories of 90’s Bushwick, where his grandparents settled, alongside sardonic observations of the contemporary city where he landed again after stops in Maryland and Massachusetts. The four band members had circled in and out of each other’s lives for years, first as college friends in Boston and afterwards as roommates in Ridgewood, Queens. But they had never played in a group together until Sean was preparing to record the band’s debut album, “Beauty & Balance,” in 2019.

Perhaps the delay was for the best. For if their debut had been about supporting Sean’s first batch of S.C.A.B. songs, their latest efforts are a collective vision, reaching new heights of post-punk beauty and danger.