"You might not have heard of The Patient yet, but Friends and Romans or Nick Bays might ring a bell. We’ve been promoting their music here at Scene SC from day one because we know they have a lot of talent and stellar songs. Two members have carried over from Friends and Romans, drummer Michael Crawford and songwriter vocalist Nick Bays. The band has also added Jeremiah Toole who is a joy to listen to live. A lead guitarist who isn’t overbearing and is a perfect accent to Nick’s melodies.

Their new song “A Loss of Blood” is proof of the hard work they put in at the recording studio earlier this year in Nashville."

-David Stringer (SceneSC.com)

"The Patient will be instantly familiar to those closely following Columbia’s music scene over the past few years, as the trio is led by Nick Bays, a rising singer-songwriter who fronted stately indie-pop act Friends and Romans. Sonically, The Patient is similar to Bays’ old outfit (and even retains the same drummer, Michael Crawford): Elegant and restrained clean guitar lines lay minor-key melodies around mid-tempo drumbeats, build to a climactic chorus, then repeat the process..."

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