Vancouver’s Focus Your Audio are truly a dynamic musical duo. The new band consists of the wildly talented Bobby McAloney and Sarah McArthur. They are impossibly well suited and illuminate one another’s generous skills. Their music seamlessly weaves together the best parts of folk, americana and rock and roll. Sarah’s voice is a sonic avalanche packed with passion and depth while Bobby provides the perfect musical landscape around it. Their chemistry together is palpable in their material. They emulate a natural passion that is impossible to fake.
Sarah grew up in small town Ontario then moved to the Maritimes and comes from a musical family. Music is in her blood and runs deep within her. Bobby grew up in Coquitlam and started playing music at a young age. He has played in an array of established bands such as the esteemed Modern Day Poets. They have both travelled the extensive and dusty road of the music industry before finding one another. Focus Your Audio is a celebration both of them discovering their sound, in all of it’s emotive and vulnerable glory. The east coast charm and west coast grit flawlessly fuse together in their music.
They released their debut self-titled EP in December 2019. These songs showcased their exquisitely intimate yet powerful sound. Sarah’s voice is tremendously passionate and raw. Their lyrics derive straight from the basements of their bleeding hearts. Their songs are beautifully emotive and tremendously moving. They embarked on a tour to celebrate the release of this marvel of a record.
June 19th, 2020 marked FYA's single release, Shades. Revealing the vulnerability of letting something burn and allowing regrowth to take root, this song is sensitive to the building of emotion with luscious harmonies and layers of instrumentation rich to the ears. With over 110,000 streams on Spotify this song continues to resonate with its audience in moving and impactful ways every time it's heard.
The much anticipated second release Over There with producer, Mike Young is their newest single. This band is digging into their rich Americana roots with Sarah's stylistic vocal performance, Bobby's intricate guitar playing backed by the Mike's instrumentation & Johnny Andrews percussion. A song about themselves during COVID and how even when you argue with the ones you love you wonder how they are over there, when you're over here.... You'll find your own story in the lyrics and your heart in the moving melodies.
