Bio
84 Tigers features Mike Reed (guitar/vocals), Ben Reed (bass), and Jono Diener (drums). After years of perennial touring and releases with their previous critically-adored outfits, Small Brown Bike and The Swellers, 84 Tigers has emerged as the three musicians’ primary creative outlet in music.
84 Tigers officially formed in early 2021 based on demos Mike had been working on through 2019/2020. In October 2021, still unannounced to the world, the band recorded with Marc Jacob Hudson (Against Me!, Taking Back Sunday) at Rancho Recordo, deep in the woods of Michigan. The result is an intense and driving 10-song album that blurs the lines of post-hardcore, punk, and 90s alt-rock into the band’s own sound.
84 Tigers’ debut album Time in the Lighthouse feels like a hurricane of nature at times — crashing, shifting, and moving with an intensity that only Mother Nature can create, then suddenly transforming with big, open melodies, creating a sense of the clouds parting after a massive storm on the seas. “Since day one with this band, we wanted to keep an open mind creatively and let the natural chemistry between the three of us take it wherever. The most important thing was whatever song we were working on at the time, finding the right dynamic and tone,” said Mike Reed, 84 Tigers’ singer and guitarist.
