Indie-pop duo Telescope Club, true to their name, take deep looks from far away. Though societal issues feel close to home at times, members Noah and Khaya hope that observing them through a musical lens of distance might offer new perspective, camaraderie, and hope to listeners navigating a time that feels doomed, at worst, or confusing, at best.

With blends of digitized rigidity, wonky guitars and raw vocal harmonies, Telescope Club aims to be naively curious about the world, asking questions that aliens might have if they had the chance to glimpse in.

Khaya Cohen and Noah Guerin began making music as Telescope Club on January 10th, 2022. They wrote their first song “Last Meal” together as an interpretation of the Climate-Satire Don’t Look Up. This song eventually became a part of their first self titled EP, which was largely created and produced while the pair was physically apart. The EP’s luscious maximalism was a result of the digital medium that their method of remote file sharing lent itself to. 

Their second collection of songs, It’s A Colorful Planet But Nobody Can See, was a hard pivot away from a digital box, and strove to be minimalist and performed live. During this time, Telescope Club was based in NYC and had two new members: Em Sgouros (drums, additional production) and Sid Dennison (synths, backing vocals). The EP included two reinterpretations from Telescope Club’s 2022 debut, Wicker and Colorful Planet, in addition to new songs Skydive and Intergalactic.

Following a USA/CA tour with Sgouros and Dennison, the group went into studio with Sahil Ansari to record their third work, Irene. For the first time, Cohen and Guerin had access to the full capabilities of a studio and an outside producer, and the result is a polished, organic record whose songs were more inwardly focused than their past releases.

After moving to Maine, where Cohen and Guerin would experience off-grid and then van-life, the band went back to being a duo. Telescope Club’s most recent EP, Apocababies, reflects the acoustic grunge that naturally came from touring and performing as just the two of them. The pair were lucky to be able to travel to Seattle to work with producer John Goodmanson (Quasi, Bikini Kill, Death Cab for Cutie), who captured this sound so expertly.

Telescope Club currently resides in Bangor, and through all of their various living situations from vastly different environments and lifestyles, they continue to look through the telescope at different ways of living and being. With a zoomed in, yet removed eye, Telescope Club experiments and inquires about the material things and innovations that separate us.