Free Time

The New York City-based group Free Time mix C86-style indie pop and jangling '90s indie rock with a sweetly ramshackle energy. They formed in mid-2012 when Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Dion Nania, who had moved to New York in 2011 and subsequently played guitar with fellow expats Scott and Charlene's Wedding and then bass on a U.S. tour by another Australian group, the Twerps, decided to start his own project. He started writing songs and piecing together a group of like-minded musicians. Settling on drummer Michael Mimoun, guitarist Jonah Maurer, and bass player Adrienne Humblet, the quartet recorded a batch of songs, which Nania took back to Melbourne to mix before returning with more songs, which the band finished up in December of 2012. Underwater Peoples released the eponymously titled Free Time album in May of 2013.