Vertical Scratchers is John Schmersal (ex-Brainiac/Enon, live Caribou, and Crooks on Tape) and Christian Beaulieu (ex-Triclops!/Anywhere). Their Merge debut Daughter of Everything was released in early 2014, a pop juggernaut that was promptly described by NPR’s Ken Tucker as “music that is at once tightly composed, whimsical and anarchic.”
