Squanderers first sprung into action as the duo of Kramer and Grubbs with the single Congress of Poodles b/w Lendrick Muir Bible Study Weekend, part of Kramer’s 2023 Shimmy-Disc box set Rings of Saturn. Squanderers now enter the arena of live performance with the addition of bona-fide guitar slayer Eisenberg, a dream of a foil to Grubbs’s grubbslike guitarisms, setting the scene for Kramer to follow his musical divining rod. Divining urges not dirges. Squanderers’s debut LP If a Body Meet a Body appeared on Shimmy-Disc in November 2024, and the group performed at the 2025 Big Ears festival.

In Grubbs’s book-length poem The Voice in the Headphones, “Squanderer” is the nickname that most deeply troubles of the book’s unnamed protagonist: “Hang your head, Squanderer. You’ll never darken the doorway of Studio A.” Will this trio of inveterate Squanderers redeem themselves?