No Thank You - All It Takes To Ruin It All [CD]

Kaytee Della Monica came into the Philadelphia music scene at the age of 16 when she and some friends started the band Airports. Kaytee went on to pursue her visual arts degree at Moore College of Art studying Fine Arts with an emphasis in Sculpture. Video and music always had a strong influence in her artistic endeavors and many of the themes from her visual artwork have continued in her musical endeavors. In 2016 Kaytee, joined forces with two of her former bandmates, Nick Holdorf (In the Pines) and Evan Bernard (The Superweaks), to turn the music that had formerly existed only in notebooks and recordings on her iPhone into their new project as the band. The result was 2017's Jump Ship, released on Lame-O Records. The coming of age album paired dreamlike sounds with dark lyrics to take you through scenes of friendship, betrayal, romance, death and addiction. Influences of their sound can be heard from Des Ark, Alanis Morissette, Rainer Maria and Pinback. GoldFlakePaint referred to the album as "a transformative masterpiece. " No Thank You's sophomore follow up All It Takes To Ruin It All is a record built around attempting to move forward after traumatic experiences. Throughout the album, Della Monica works through the recent death of her father and the ways that rippled through her life, relationships and state of mind. It's a raw, cathartic album that looks at the darkest parts of life but focuses on the attempts to keep moving in spite.