37 Houses – “When and How It Happened”

37 Houses has always been a running journal of lead singer Erin Sydney and guitarist Jeremy Rosenblum’s marriage. The band started as a way to handle moving into lockdown just four months after tying the knot. Since then, their music has turned into a direct way to process the love and pain they go through together.

Their album, When and How It Happened, opens the next chapter of that journey. They spent 18 months writing these songs while navigating the messy process of trying, and then deciding not to be, polyamorous in a young marriage.

Because they wrote everything while it was actually happening, you can feel the raw emotion of those specific moments. They had no idea how things would end up while they were writing. Helium captures a heavy dose of anxiety and grief over a few days spent with a girlfriend and the months of fallout that followed. The opening track, Shadow Puppets, is an apology and an acceptance that hope is gone, though it keeps this deep sense of unconditional love underneath. Acoustic tracks like Unloveable and Love Song stand right next to each other; one dives into their darkest spaces, while the other clings to an endless love when things get too heavy.

To record it, they rented a mountain house in Colorado, tracked the band live, and finished all the instruments in four days. It sounds like a raw, live rock record, favoring cranked amps and genuine feel over polished layers. They even tracked the vocals and acoustic parts in their own bedroom. Make sure to follow 37 Houses on social media to keep up with their new music this year.