The Buddyrevelles are a Chicago-based indie rock trio formed in 1997 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, consisting of Aaron Grant on guitars and lead vocals, Scott Hoch on bass and background vocals, and Dan Reinholdt on drums. Their debut album September, November, released in 1998 on Motorcoat Records, earned a 9.1 from Pitchfork, who described the sound as sitting somewhere between Chicago post-rock, the best Galaxie 500 material, and the hope of a better future. Their second album American Matador followed in 2000, and Don’t Quit arrived in 2007 on Solitaire Records. After years away from releasing new material, the band returned in 2025 with the four-song EP The Concession, followed by the powerful standalone single Anything for Abbey earlier this year, and then Make The Dings Louder in May. Now they are back again, and they are not slowing down.

Oh, No

Released June 5, 2026, the title alone carries the Buddyrevelles’ particular gift for compression. Two words that can mean almost anything depending on how you hold them: resignation, surprise, wry recognition, quiet devastation. That ambiguity has always been part of what makes this band’s songwriting work, and it is very much present here.

The melodic layered guitar work that has been the band’s signature since their debut is in full effect, moving with the kind of unhurried confidence that only comes from three people who have been playing together for nearly three decades. Grant’s vocals sit in that familiar space between reflection and urgency, delivering the lyrical content with the understated precision that critics noted all the way back on September, November. Hoch and Reinholdt hold the rhythm section exactly where it needs to be, which is to say quietly essential and never in the way.

What is striking about this run of singles the Buddyrevelles have been releasing is the consistency of quality without any sense of repetition. Each one has its own emotional register while remaining unmistakably the same band. Oh, No continues that pattern. It does not try to be louder or more dramatic than what came before it. It simply arrives, says what it has to say, and stays with you.

Final Thoughts

Three singles deep into their return and the Buddyrevelles are making one of the more compelling cases in indie rock right now for what longevity and craft actually look like. Oh, No is another strong piece from a band that has clearly found its second wind. Whatever comes next from this group, it is worth paying attention to.

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