Formed at the tail end of 2009, NY's Timeshares have always done things by themselves, pouring their lives and hearts into their songs and working hard - really, really hard - on doing it all themselves.

The band recorded its 2011 debut full-length Bearable in the basement of bassist/vocalist Mike Natoli's family home and have done exactly the same with Already Dead, its stunning, genre-bending follow-up.

The album reaffirms Timeshares' place in a punk scene that already holds the band in high regard, but also fully transcends it at the same time.

It's a record that sees the band take a great leap forward in terms of its songwriting - not that it was lacking in the first place - to create something that's thoroughly timeless and modern, classic and new, invoking an alt-country feel that's as much Old '97s, Giant Sand and Richmond Fontaine as it is Hot Water Music, Jawbreaker or Latterman.