As a band, Seratones may be on the younger side of things. But guitarist Connor Davis, bassist Adam Davis, drummer Jesse Gabriel and singer and rhythm guitarist AJ Haynes collectively have a wealth of musical experience. After 10 years of working on their own projects, they finally combined talents to form what we now know as the Seratones, who released their debut record, Get Gone, in May. Myspace had the chance to chat with the Shreveport, LA quartet and found out about the band's beginnings, the new album and how they really felt performing at NPR's Tiny Desk Concert.

Homebase: Shreveport, LA

How did the band get together?

AJ Haynes: We've known each other for a decade and played in various projects together in Shreveport. Seratones is about two years. We figured this was the perfect way to try out the sounds like the most.

Since you knew each other for 10 years, what took so long to get the four of you together as one band?

Haynes: We had different projects going on. So for example, when we first met, Jesse and Connor were in The Noids, and Adam was in a band called Sunday Mass Murder — a punk and thrash band. And from there, as each project changed and went away, as things do in the ebb and flow of music. And this is what stuck and what we're happiest with.

Since you all have been musicians for a while and were part of different projects, did it take a while to find your groove together as a band?

Jesse Gabriel: Really no. It went pretty quickly because we found our groove with the other projects. So when we started this one, it was easy. Some of the songs that we still play to this day, we wrote two years ago and just came out now. We were writing for this Battle of the Bands project…

Haynes: The Louisiana Music Prize, and we won studio time at Blade Studios in town. And that's when we cut our first demos, and that's when Fat Possum [Records] heard after it was sent to them by Deg, who works at their warehouse. We played with Deg [and his band, NERVES] at Hot Springs, AR. It was serendipitous because it was our first show out of town, out of Shreveport, as the Seratones, and got label attention. It was pretty weird. [Laughs]

You guys have been working on this album for two years, but you're really letting people hear it now. So how does it all feel, as the Seratones, at this moment?

Haynes: Surreal.

Adam Davis: It feels natural. I've always wanted to travel and play music; so it feels great that it's working out.

Gabriel: It all feels really fresh but we've also been doing it for a long time. So it's cool.

What was it like to open for the Dandy Warhols?

Haynes: Awesome. They're awesome. The crew's great. There's something about the Dandy fans. They're all just really nice. I can make that generalization and make that assumption.

Gabriel: I had my first experience with acro-yoga while we were there with fans. They were dressed to the nines in crazy, colorful hippy clothes and stuff. They were really hippy people.

You also played the NPR's Tiny Desk Concert. What was that like?

Haynes: Girl… Period!

Connor: It was a very surreal experience. We set up in this small area and just go.

Haynes: It's like you take all of your songs and strip them down to the raw emotional. It's so jarring. You're very vulnerable and very naked.

Gabriel: You're very intimate. It really is. The people there all work at NPR, and they're right in front of you. And we're not playing at the same volume and intensity that we would be playing at during our own show.

Adam: That's the weird thing. We're really loud, but we weren't there.

Connor: You could hear people breathe.

The debut album, Get Gone, is out. What's your favorite song to perform from it?

Haynes: I get most excited to play "Trees" at the end of the set because I get to put my guitar down and run around like a banshee. And there are few things that I enjoy more than that.

Connor Davis: Right now, I would say "Don't Need It" because it kind of builds and has these different feels to it and [it's] fun to play around with it every time.

Adam: I like all of them for different reasons. They all feel different right now.

Haynes: That's the thing about our set. It's that everything doesn't sound the same so it's fun for us. We're playing these songs every night, and every night is a new chance to discover them. Some days, some songs are more reeled in, and some days they're flying off the handle. And it's kind of fun that way.