Neighborly was the brainchild of Tom Ackerman. Tom spent ample time as lead singer and guitarist of Portland's Skiploader and later sat behind the drum kit for Sunday's Best, as well as having played drums and engineered a good portion of the debut album for former Knapsack frontman Blair Shehan's The Jealous Sound. Most recently Tom played guitar in The Kite-Eating Tree.

After major label frills gave way, Tom and company didn't see eye-to-eye and Skiploader, a band that had made a considerable impact on the independent music arena and its constituents, then disbanded after a history of releasing two full-lengths and an [EP] to some degree of success. Tom had enough bullshit, packed up his gear, and moved to sunny California.

It was there Tom attended Loyola Marymount University in an effort to polish up his recording skills and find continuity in life. In doing so Tom formed a new circle of friends and also met up with some old friends that had meandered out to California. Neighborly was spawned. Not veering far from Skiploader's soundfield, Neighborly's smart, post-punk catchiness mimicked Tom's previous efforts. What did change however were the pop structured assortments in songwriting stylistics not previously found in Skiploader's material.

Tom is doing different things with life these days, but the imprint Skiploader left on the few fans the band reached out to are again accented by the ten or so tracks Neighborly compiled in their short existence.

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