Born of navel-gazing self-indulgence and vague ambition, Erie Choir began at the dawn of the new millennium as the solo/acoustic/folk singing sort-of-thing of Sorry About Dresden’s Eric Roehrig. The now long standing lineup of Roehrig, fellow Sorry About Dresden alumnus James Hepler, Bob Wall, and Jack Watson, along with recent addition, Ben Spiker, has since evolved into a mix of indie rock, americana, power pop,and the occasional extended choogle. Their third album, Golden Reviser, scheduled for release on November 7th on Potluck Foundation, dabbles in all these subgenres and more, and is the band’s most ambitious work yet. Golden Reviser deals with the weight of history, personal and otherwise — the way we grapple with our past and loss, how nostalgia can sanitize our memories, and the unsettling feeling that arises when your “tortured youth is now called a golden age” as Roehrig sings in “It’s So Strange.” Sonically, the album wanders from acoustic Neil Youngian laments to Replacement-esque rave ups, soft rock cosplay to unironic, heart-on-your-sleeve anthems. The band is aided by cameos from Tim Kasher (Cursive, The Good Life), Greg Humphreys (Dillon Fence, Hobex),&nbsp; Sara Bell (Shark Quest, Lud), Reid Johnson (Schooner),and Joshua Carpenter (Carpenter/Cohen) and was recorded by local stalwart Jerry Kee.After a pair of self-released EP’s in the early 2000s, Sit-n-Spin Records released Slighter Awake in 2006, which Pop Matters called “crisp, clean, indie rock with a folk-pop flavor.” The recording of the follow up, Old Rigs, began in 2011, but wasn’t completed and released until November 2017. Nonetheless, the Big Takeover declared it “worth the wait”, describing Roehrig as “an American Graham Parker.“ Three years later, they released the Starlight Veins EP, which the Indy Weekly called "feelgood music for pessimists, summer jams for introverts," describing the EP closer "Night Junction" as "punked-up Springsteen." 2022 saw the release of Bad Tsars Was a Drag, an odds n’ sods compilation of the band's output from the early 2000s that had previously only been available on homemade, burned CD-Rs or compilation albums with limited distribution that The Big Takeover noted was ”surprisingly, given such excess, …consistently strong throughout.”While the band’s output over its two decades’ existence would never be called prolific, Erie Choir has persisted, and continues to make music guided solely by their own artistic impulses. Golden Reviser represents the next step forward in their continued, albeit unhurried, evolution.