Formed during the summer of 2004, Ambulette came to life when Maura Davis (formerly of Denali) and two of her future bandmates began exchanging tapes between her hometown of Richmond, Virginia and their hometown of Chicago.

Denali had just split a few months earlier and Davis briefly considered taking a break and perhaps even going back to school. In the end, however, new songs flooded forth and Ambulette was fully realized as a band.

What grew out of Ambulette (vocalist Davis, guitarist Matt Clark, bassist Stephen Howard, and drummer Ryan Rapsys)’s earliest sessions eventually became The Lottery, an EP recorded during the spring of 2005, to be released March 21st on Astralwerks. A striking debut, the five-song collection brims with moody, impassioned and intimate overtures, topped off with Davis’ expansive range.