Music INSIGHT
credited within Keyton as adding new
depth to the band’s style.
“It adds more depth to have a lead guitar
over an acoustic part; the interaction between the two adds subtle intricacies into
the songs,” said Fike.
Drummer Mike Holman rolls in on the
snare and the song breaks into a stride, a
poppy 2/4 beat with Carl Kasper’s springy
bass tying the rhythm section together.
Fike’s vocals are upbeat, cued by modern
pop-punk influences but free from the
genre’s tendency to ape Fall Out Boy and
Dashboard Confessional. The resulting
song is a summer sing-along for plowing
through the cold months post album release.
If the place where “Sleepless” and title
track “Postmark My Heart” are steeped in
history, it’s appropriate that Keyton has
a sense of history as well. The band has
existed in some form for more than a decade, with Fike appropriately operating as
the core member, though the name, he
says, came