Photo by Veronica Henderson

Speaking of the ahead-of-its-timeline influence of Drop Nineteens, the future they imagine stays bright with bands like Steel Wool continuing to bend its spectrum on the horizon. Last autumn, we received a very promising glimpse of what was to come of the Los Angeles post-shoegaze rockers with the single “Eyes Closed”, a listen which introduced the four-piece of guitarist and vocalist Sean Lissner, bassist and backing vocalist Jaden Amjadi, guitarist Sam Schlesinger, and drummer Evan Landi as outliers against everything else going on these days with a dream aesthetic-driven revivalism and instead focused Lissner’s buttery tenor at the forefront of swirling feedback. “Fading”, the lead single from their forthcoming eponymous debut EP, they goes even further beyond conventional boundaries of an already amorphous sound. Despite Lissner’s state of being being dragged beneath the surface, it’s Amjadi who represent the cause and effect reaction of letting yourself disappear. “Fading, wasting / A shadow’s negative is everything you’re not,” he hurls through the dazed state with a hardcore friction. “Until you’re fading, wasting / A tapestry of crossing lines is everything you’re not.” Even though you may feel numb to everything around you, the truth screams it all back into your face.

Steel Wool’s Steel Wool will be released April 10th on Bug Body.