Grilled Rice was originally formed by Nile and Talon in their junior year of high school. At first, they only played instrumentals despite Nile’s notebooks of potential song lyrics. Most of their gigs took place at a small coffeehouse, and Amber, one of the employees, eventually joined them as their lead singer a few months after the band originated. After about a year of playing together, Talon said they were tired of the drums and wanted to put their guitar lessons to use, but no one could take their place.

Nile went on the search for a potential candidate in their senior year and found Silas in the band room after school. The four have been joined at the hip ever since, although Amber was already in college. Nile and Talon eventually got into Wilmington University (Springfield), and after graduating high school, Silas enrolled at DCAD (Delaware College of Art and Design), where Amber is.

FYI: The band members are around ages 40 or 50 present-day! However, their primary story takes place during the 80s and 90s, so you'll always see them drawn as kids or young adults. More notes will be added to this section in due-time.

Grilled Rice was originally formed by Nile and Talon in their junior year of high school. At first, they only played instrumentals despite Nile’s notebooks of potential song lyrics. Most of their gigs took place at a small coffeehouse, and Amber, one of the employees, eventually joined them as their lead singer a few months after the band originated. After about a year of playing together, Talon said they were tired of the drums and wanted to put their guitar lessons to use, but no one could take their place.

Nile went on the search for a potential candidate in their senior year and found Silas in the band room after school. The four have been joined at the hip ever since, although Amber was already in college. Nile and Talon eventually got into Wilmington University (Springfield), and after graduating high school, Silas enrolled at DCAD (Delaware College of Art and Design), where Amber is.

FYI: The band members are around ages 40 or 50 present-day! However, their primary story takes place during the 80s and 90s, so you'll always see them drawn as kids or young adults. More notes will be added to this section in due-time.

Given that this was the first album, it was in the works for a while. Though Nile and Talon were the only members at the time, everyone still wanted it in the overall discography. There are 7 songs, and while most are instrumental, those with words are sung by Nile. Kyle, Nile’s older brother, took the photo one afternoon. They were still in high school, hence Nile’s long hair and overabundance of acne and Talon’s more feminine presentation.

• Neon Bike Shorts
• How Many Pics Can You Drop in a Guitar?
• You Spilled the Fucking Gender Fluid
• To Those Scared of Revolving Doors
• Driving on the Shoulder
• She Has Helicopter Parents
• Grilled Rice

Unbeknownst to most, this is their most disorganized album. Between Silas being a new recruit, Talon and Nile prioritizing college applications and graduation requirements, and Ambrosia trying to rework some of their older, unreleased songs, rehearsals were often a mess. Some months were flawless, whereas others were touch-and-go, only to find that not stressing about production led to a better product.

There are 10 tracks, most of which are chill, and unlike their other albums, the songs go together. It was the single instance where someone wrote the first song, and everyone else tried to write something similar. While Ambrosia wrote most of the songs, Silas helped name many. Kyle took the photo at Dewey Beach, where he normally resides, and the dress code was a waistcoat with unrelated bottoms of your choice.

• At The Tone The Time Will Be
• Saturated
• Landlines and Landmines
• Ear-Shaped Band Aids
• Merge Left
• Lack of Punctuation!!!
• Copper Wires
• Tennis Skirts
• Bad Reception
• Incoherent Noise

Most fans feel this is where they perfected their sound hence this being the most popular album. It took about a year to complete, but the upbeat nature and Silas singing solo throughout the last track boosted popularity. Silas usually hid in the back playing drums, and since he’s the youngest face and newest edition, people loved seeing him centerstage.

He performed the same song at his high school when his wings appeared (which likely boosted ratings since fans got clips or photos of the transformation). It was technically a demo, likely to take place on a future album, but they added it as a bonus, making the track count 11 instead of 10. "Plastic-Covered Couches" is the only slow song.

• No Shirt, No Shoes, No Problem
• Arcade Carpet
• Wilmington's Most Wanted
• Bookcases From Ikea
• Plastic-Covered Couches
• Plot Twist (I'm an Optical Illusion!)
• Playbills, Billboards, and Boardgames
• Iridescent Sweat
• Lighthouse Nightclub
• Iron-on Patches
• In The Meantime

Nile practices many original songs on his own with themes he doesn’t want to force others to work around, such as his ex-boyfriends, family problems, or unattainable love interests (Silas). His vent lyrics are written in a way that’s hard to grasp the overall issue, but when the members realized he was writing on the side, they recommended he make his first solo album. Even if he didn’t want them in his business, they didn’t want his talents to go unnoticed.

He was reluctant until Silas happened to catch him singing after their rehearsals ended and thought everyone had left the band room. Despite his embarrassment, he was flattered by his friend’s compliments and figured he might as well release some. Nile usually merges vocals with Ambrosia, so people loved hearing him by himself.

And though the cover photo seems like it’s trying to be edgy, Nile was black-out drunk, and yes, his glasses were actually recently broken. He and the others were invited to a party, and Talon and Silas found him in the bathtub at the end of the night. Out of the 14 songs, half are acoustic, and all are surprisingly vulgar. Despite being released in 1996, many songs are refined drafts of old songs dating back to 1992.

Songs in orange are directed at Silas, but Nile is really the only one who knows...since he wrote them and all. They either allude towards him possibly being an angel, or just the massive crush Nile has on him. Sometimes both.

• Baggage Claim
• The People in my Dreams Last Night
• Mothers Against Drunk Drowning
• Life Saver Gummies
• Who are you when no one's looking?
• Alcohol Poisoning
• My Closet of White Feathers
• Substance Abuse Saturday
• Power Outage Traffic Lights
• There's more than birds on powerlines, y'know?
• DIY Obituary
• Kissable Landmarks
• Surface Tension
• Zero Buoyancy

Silas had a burst of determination and decided that he’d finally confess to Amber during his senior year, and the easiest way would be asking her to be his prom date. While she was happy to join him, she didn’t get the subtext, and Silas quickly got embarrassed, freaked out, and decided to invite the rest of their friends too. Since the rest of the band members were under 21 and had previously attended the school, getting tickets was effortless.

While making it a group outing was a coverup, Silas’ classmates got the drift: He and Amber were the only ones in the group with corsages and matching outfits. Nonetheless, Silas basks in the joy of being able to dance with his crush for 4 hours, even if he never confessed. The 9 songs sound like a mixture of 80s disco and rock. Most reference the night itself, although many were afterthoughts since Silas attended prom in 1996.

Nile and Talon were the last kids on the dancefloor (1), 15 minutes in and one of Silas’ classmates was already drunk (2), some schnapps was secretly passed around during the dance, and was found under a table at the end of the night (3), there was only one planned slow dance so everyone started randomly slow dance to the upbeat songs since the DJ was oblivious (5), Talon brought hundreds of glow sticks and shared them with Silas’ graduating class (6), and since Silas was graduating in a few weeks, they declared it was the end of an era now that all, including him, were adults (9).

• The Last Kids on the Dancefloor
• Fifteen Minutes In, And
• Under the Table with the Schnapps
• Delaware Bae
• Slowdance into the Apocalpyse
• Sincerely, The Glowsticks
• The Promenade
• After Hours
• The End of an Era