Defined by earnest melodies and infectious riffs, Edmund’s sound is as blithe as it is percipient and as youthful and it is mature.

Not unlike the music-makers themselves. Having struck up friendships before forming Edmund in the fall of 2005, Matthew Walko (vocals, guitar), Jeremy Penner (vocals, keys), Stephen Hubbard (bass) and Landon Folz (drums) share a fervor for crafting music that’s both eloquent and electric. Within a short span of time, Walko and Penner had established a cohesive songwriting partnership and the band was performing for crowds of all ages at The Backstage Lounge, Media Club and university campuses across the Lower Mainland. By June 2006, they were in the studio recording their first album.

The result is Behave, a nine song LP released in November 2006. Eager to transpose the energy of their live shows, Edmund ambitiously self-produced and self-engineered the album along with help from West Coast producer Jonathan Anderson, who has worked with other Canadian up-and-comers (Stabilo, P