Established in San Francisco, CA in 2002, Enablers' subsequent five LPs and four EPs have signaled a transcendent approach to “Spoken Word” music. The 2019 LP, Zones (Broken Clover, Lancashire&Somerset, and Exile on Mainstream) is a further example of Enablers’ push for musical expansion and growth. Zones represents a band that is increasingly more comfortable with experimentation and improvisation, while continuing to embrace all the musical elements that have established their sound for close to twenty years.

Band Members: Joe Goldring (former Swans, Toiling Midgets, Touched by a Janitor) on guitar; Kevin Robert Thomson (former Nice Strong Arm, Timco, Touched by a Janitor, now Hazel Atlas) also on guitar; poet, writer, and narrator Pete Simonelli on vocals. Rounding out the line-up is drummer Sam Ospovat (Ava Mendoza, Brendan Seabrook, Beep!, tUnE-yArDs, William Winant).  

Discography: —End Note (LP 2004, Neurot Recordings); “New Moon” (7” split with Red Panda, 2005, Lancashire and Somerset); Output Negative Space (LP 2006 released on Neurot Recordings; re-issued on vinyl by Lancashire and Somerset, 2012); The Achievement (EP 2007, Awesome Vistas); Tundra (LP 2008 Majic Wallet & Exile on Mainstream, Lancashire and Somerset); Now You Can Answer My Prayers (EP 2009, Lancashire and Somerset,); Blown Realms and Stalled Explosions (LP, 2011, Exile on Mainstream/Lancashire and Somerset dual release); Berlinesque (EP, 2014, digital release on Bandcamp); The Rightful Pivot (LP, 2015, Lancashire and Somerset/Exile on Mainstream dual release/Atypeek digital); Pigeon Diaries (EP, 2019, Lancashire and Somerset [vinyl], digital release on Bandcamp); Zones (LP, 2019, Lancashire and Somerset/Exile on Mainstream dual release).