Songwriter Spotlight: Mike McFadden of Animal Years

Mike McFadden leads the indie rock band Animal Years as its singer-songwriter and acoustic guitar player. Born and raised in the Baltimore area where he began writing songs that garnered local play on the Baltimore NPR station. He moved to Brooklyn, New York where he assembled the band Animal Years and began generating a local following at the vibrant Brooklyn music scene based on his anthemic, fist pumping songs. They began to tour the country where their song “Caroline” began generating a large amount of attention on Spotify. They are releasing their an album this year entitled This Is An Album Called Animal Years and Mike joins us to discuss “Caroline” and other songs from the Animal Years repetoire.