A self-described "anti-band" dedicated to making music without writing songs or rehearsing their material, Soldiers of Fortune are also a noisy indie rock supergroup featuring members of Interpol, Oneida, and Chavez. The group managed to gig periodically despite not being an actual band, and in 2011, Mexican Summer Records persuaded them to commit the Cardinal sin of making an album, with the four-song, 37-minute Ball Strenth documenting the Soldiers' attack for the ages. In 2015 lighting struck again, with SoF ambling into the studio to cut another set of high-impact jams titled Early Risers. This time out, the group invited several guest vocalists to join in, including Stephen Malkmus, Cass McCombs, Dan Melchior, and Clark "Yeremias" Bronson. ~ Mark Deming