Connected by their love for the 90’s indie rock sound, as well as their math rock and punk backgrounds, XOAN started playing with their current formation in the fall of 2017. Songwriter brothers John and Philip Lefas recorded a bunch of demos in their parents’ basement, teamed up with bassist Giannis Mimikos and drummer Antonis Charalabidis and started playing in venues all around Athens while working on their debut album. In May 2018 the band hit the studio alongside prominent Athenian producer Alex Bolpasis (Whereswilder, The Steams, The Noise Figures) to create “Greenhorn”: A coming of age record that refuses to come of age. Greenhorn consists of 8 vibrant tracks, filled with vulnerable yet visceral tunefulness that is meant to serve as a coping mechanism in the constant struggle of try...