Routine Caffeine is a three-piece band based in Louisville, Kentucky. The band consists of Katie O'Brien Kelley on vocals and guitar, Madison Case on bass and vocals, and Eliza Ledford on drums. Their sound has been described as dreamy indie rock with a hint of shoegaze.
Their most recent shows were at Expansion Music Festival at The Burl in Lexington, Kentucky and at Headliner's Music Hall opening up for feeble little horse.
The band's first single, "Pennies in the Garden," received kind words from publications such as New Commute and WFPK. New Commute wrote that the song contains “spiraling, locked groove guitar riffs that perpetrate into a multicolored dreamcloud of lazing surf rock.” The song went on to be featured in the 2025 film “Bob Trevino Likes It.”
Their EP “Weeds Under Concrete Stones” was released in October 2024. Various Small Flames said the opening track, “Philodendron,” is a track that “marries a taut central rhythm with a dreamy haze, and hints at a sharp bite too.”
They released the first single from their upcoming album last summer, and they just released the album's second single, “Porcelain Doll,” this August. Obscure Sound said “Porcelain Doll” expands “into a delectably unsettling second half, complete with late-night keys, post-punk rhythmic maneuvers, and an intensifying bass-y finale.” They are currently working on mixing the rest of their album and it is set to release in 2027.
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