Pitchfork

Vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Enigk and drummer William Goldsmith, formerly of legendary emo troupe Sunny Day Real Estate, are recording together in the pair's hometown of Seattle, according the band's website. Although the new project remains unnamed as yet, the personnel bear a striking resemblance to Sunny Day Real Estate's classic incarnation, before the group's initial 1995 split. The duo is working with producer Brad Wood, who helmed the boards for the group's scorching landmark 1994 debut, Diary, and the angular and obliquely rendered follow-up, LP2 (aka The Pink Album).

Sunny Day fans may also be heartened to hear that the band's former bassist Nate Mendel (currently of Foo Fighters) is playing bass on the album, leaving only ex-guitarist Dan Hoerner, who is presently focusing on his "Art Conspiracy" multimedia project, out of the mix. No word yet on a label, release date, tour, sound, or much of anything else.

Of course, Sunny Day Real Estate have been a dismantled unit before, splitting shortly before the 1995 release of LP2, only to make a 1998 comeback, minus Mendel, with How It Feels to Be Something On. The surprisingly prog The Rising Tide followed two years later, but after label and management difficulties scuttled the recording process of a planned follow-up, the band fragmented again. Although the new Enigk/Hoerner/Mendel project isn't technically Sunny Day Real Estate, Michael Jordan is wearing a different jersey these days, too. We deal.