Keyan Pourzand, Alex Brady, and Dillon Lee weren’t even alive when shoegaze came into being in the late ’80s, nor were they even there to see alternative music hit its noisy, grunge peak of the ’90s, but the Los Angeles trio known as julie sound like they lived through it all along on “clairbourne practice”, the lead single from the band’s debut album, my anti-aircraft friend. In a sea of Gen-Zs seeking shelter from the demise of the world through delay pedals, blown out feedback, and submerged vocals, their take on this shape of underground rock scaled up for major label consumption — julie are among the first from shoegaze’s streaming age to ink with one of the big money names, signing with Atlantic Records — through a careening surge of electricity and layered melodies that crashes lingering desires and heavy confusion into their emotional plane. “It just makes me feel like / The things you do, and all you say / I’ll cut my hair another way,” Pourzand and Brady pore over the same lines, yet the disconnect from each’s directions bleeds volumes. Sometimes a shrug that isn’t anything can be deafening…

Directed by: Lizzie Klein and julie

julie’s my anti-aircraft friend will be released September 13th on Atlantic Records.