Overseas is a collaborative supergroup made up of indie songwriters/multi-instrumentalists David Bazan, Will Johnson, and brothers Matt and Bubba Kadane. The four had become friends over the course of many years playing shows together in their various respective projects like Pedro the Lion, Centro-Matic, and Bedhead, and shortly after the 2009 death of their mutual friend Vic Chestnutt, the quartet assembled in a Denton, Texas studio to work on what they thought would be material for a tour-only EP. Instead, the group came away from the session with an album's worth of basic tracks. Over the next three years, the friends solidified into a full-fledged group, resulting in a self-titled 12-song album in 2013. ~ Fred Thomas