The Hails
Regardless of whichever omnipresent puller-of-strings you subscribe to, it’s undeniable that some force
was always working to ensure the inevitability of The Hails. From two of the band members both calling
the same third floor apartment home at different parts of their then separate childhoods — the very
building they’d later meet their bassist in — to a fateful University of Florida dining hall encounter years
later that set things in motion. There has always been a strange air about the sequence of events meant
to unite Robbie Kingsley, Franco Solari, Dylan McCue, Andre Escobar and Zach Levy, that begs the
question, is anything ever truly up to chance?
Despite first playing in an insular Miami high school music scene, the band officially formed at UF, finding
their moniker in the college’s alma mater — “All hail, Florida, hail.” The Hails banded together through a
slew of long nights and wild house shows in their living room — the only option in the basement-less
state of Florida. Ironically, from the tattered carpeting and the beer bottle lined shelves of their shitty
college house arose a distinct, refined sound that is now synonymous with the band’s name.
With shimmering early singles like “Younger” and “Stay,” and their EPs He Seems Upset (2020) and Alive
in Strange Ways (2021), The Hails came to represent an edgy sort of sleekness that can only be
attributed to the cities they cut their teeth in — Gainesville and Miami. Mirrored in the band’s sound,
there’s an underlying grit that comes from Gainesville’s affinity toward DIY; where the band played
countless shows at the infamous High Dive over the years and hijacked the community spirit of an entire
college town. But within everything the band does, you can hear Miami’s quality of perfectly riding the
line between the cutting edge and the neon-laced nostalgia of yesteryears. Fusing their varying cultures,
upbringings and influences, comes a sound that's unmistakably singular.
Firing the starting pistol of their current chapter, The Hails began rolling out singles from their debut
album in October 2022. Recent highlights of the road include holding court at festivals like III Points,
WonderStruck and Okeechobee, interspersed between sold-out shows across the state of Florida, and
tour support for WILLIS, The Happy Fits, The Beaches and the moss. Now with their debut album What’s
Your Motive out in the world, The Hails will bring their new music to the road on their first ever headline
tour.
The keys to that third-floor apartment have traded hands to another family, and a new wave of
orange-and-blue-clad underclassmen shuffle into the dining hall to grab their heat-lamp-warmed meals.
But even in the same settings, no string of occurrences will ever happen again to create a band quite like
The Hails.
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