Founded in 2014 by singer and guitarist Jayan Bertrand, Seafoam Walls expanded with the addition of bassist Joshua Ewers, multi-instrumentalist Dion Kerr and drummer Josue Vargas. The band's debut album, XVI, got a boost in national attention when Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth released it on his Daydream Library Series label. XVI was self-recorded and produced in Dion’s home studio. This attracted the attention of outlets such as, Pitchfork, SPIN (who named them one of 22 Artists To Watch In 2022), Afropunk, Under The Radar, BrooklynVegan, FLOOD Magazine, Audiotree and beyond, who were uniform in their admiration. But even with the band's apt and efficient genre-branding, XVI remains otherworldly and addictive — kind of like the city that spawned it.