Throughout the last 2.5 years, Indianapolis, Indiana-based Red Light Driver has been making sizable waves with their atmospheric blend of pop. In February of 2009 we will finally see their debut full-length come into physical reality with the help of MFT Records. The new album, titled "...and Now We Can Be Ourselves" jumps between 70s post-punk (Joy Division, Wire), 80s alternative (The Church, Echo and the Bunneymen), and 90s Britpop (Stone Roses, Ride) - culminating in a unique blend of ethereal pop that is informed by their influences, yet somehow remarkably new.

Singer-songwriter Adam Ashbach is no stranger to the Rock and Roll lifestyle. He played with Musical Outfits for almost seven years as the Chicago rock band sold out some of the city's biggest venues, played Lollapalooza, were scouted by major labels and traveled to Greece, where they enjoyed heavy radio airplay and performed on a popular television show. After numerous breakups, fights over the same girl and a barroom brawl that left Ashbach with a broken jaw, he had had enough. After retreating from music and Chicago for nearly two years, Adam’s love for melody and songwriting called him home to record his first solo effort, the sweet and heartfelt EP Puzzle Pieces, with the help of old band mates Jason Angelilli and Joe Wagner. Ashbach is now ready to give the rock and rollercoaster one more shot.

"If you threw the best new wave CD’s ever in a blender and poured the contents into a mold, popping out a band the embodied everything you loved about The Smiths, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Clash- you’ve created Welcome To Ashley; a band even Q101 called among the best of 2008. Their sound is not dated, yet gives polite nod to its predecessors, and feels Midwestern rock despite its birth in Nashville. WTA stays refreshing where others with similar technique fall off the radar after a song or two. Unlike other Chicago bands clinging to familiar territory, WTA challenges with semi depressing lyrical content without jumping the line into emo territory to cry among the others. Instead they blend intelligence to the glamish swagger reminiscent of every old Brit band I wished I could have been old enough to see perform. Until time machines are invented, WTA fills the void by writing songs those old bands would have been proud to write themselves." - Jyn Radakovits, The Indie Music Examiner