"I Never Meant It To Be Like This" places Cumulus squarely alongside contemporary acts like Best Coast, The Dum Dum Girls, and Tennis, while reaching back to a not-so-distant golden age of indie pop when good bands had hits, and the knack for wide-readership hooks (Elastica, Veruca Salt, Juliana Hatfield) and loud guitars (Yo La Tengo, My Bloody Valentine’s first album) didn’t preclude a heroic dose of delicacy (Heavenly, the Delgados, Velocity Girl, Tiger Trap). All of which is to say you could almost mistake Cumulus— who appear, let’s face it, pretty adorable—for twee if they didn’t rock so commandingly.

TEMPLE CANYON is nostalgic rocky canyon magic brewing in Seattle, WA. Laurel Canyon-inspired psychedelic folk rock with a penchant for reverb-laden rockouts and hushed intimate spontaneity. A rapturous transference of memories and hallucinations through sound.   "Glimpses of Stevie Nicks and Grace Potter & the Nocturnals are sprinkled about this band, with its fiery vocal punches and sultry guitar licks." - Here & Now Media   “From the big drums to the strummy/stabby guitar interplay to the woozy keyboard lines, it’s hard not to hear some of the best elements of ’80s alternative pop at play here." - Levi Fuller - Ball Of Wax Quarterly   "Heavy, but utterly transcendent anthems of adventure and discovery."  - Chris Estey - Big Freak Media // KEXP 90.3 FM // XO Publicity "Constant juxtaposing of darkest and lightest feelings and experiences, sonically going as far as possible from one polarity to the other. You thought you were listening to Heart, but then all of a sudden it’s sounding more like The Gits."  - Northwest Music Scene  

Kristin Allen-Zito is songwriter from Bellingham, WA, well known for being the lead singer of the electro-punk band The Trucks. However she is also a solo artist whose songs are rooted in the folk idiom, strongly influenced by pop and indie-rock. She has played shows around the Pacific Northwest for years, and has also made several regional tours of the West Coast, Southwest, Midwest, & New York.