1991 isn’t a new album from Drop Nineteens per se, but it’ll be new to most of listeners’ ears — especially of that a new generation who’ve since only discovered them in recent years — as it’s the seminal Bostonian shoegaze band’s long lost album. Collecting their two earliest demos which were sent out to labels when shopping around for a record deal (which they in turn abandoned in order to write and record all new music that would become their classic, Delaware,) its latest highlight “Mayfield” unofficially doubles as the title track. Keeping in mind the band members were only in their teens when they set a song like this to 8-track tape in their dorm rooms, that’s part of its mystique, as reverbing guitar layers and dissonant harmonies swelling through the hiss are the energy that would come to define shoegaze’s iconic sonic aesthetic for decades to come — the sound of another time that still sounds like beyond the seconds of the now.

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