The return of Drop Nineteens has been moving on a different timeline than most of their under-heralded peers from within the shoegaze and slowcore scenes who’ve since reconvened after decades of dormancy. The Boston band’s reunion has indeed brought with it a solid return to form for the current with last year’s blissful standout and first new album in 30 year, Hard Light, but it’s also brought with it an opportunity for newer ears to discover where it all started through reissues of their best known material. The release of 1991 — a forthcoming collection of unearthed demo sessions that until now, had never been heard by anyone beyond labels they attempted to court during their formative years before recording all new songs that would become their breakthrough, Deleware — goes one level deeper in branching out into spaces more mysterious than originally known. “Daymom”, its first preview, is an enchanted listen that showcases the band’s early promise through dreamscaped layers of guitars and resonant melancholia. The backwards timeline almost sounds more relevant next to today’s new wave of shoegaze. “We let the time remain
 / So, so, so slow.” Those are words that travel into our present like prophecy.

Drop Nineteens’ 1991 will be released February 7th on Wharf Cat Records.