These days, you’re just as likely to run into a group of punk and hardcore artists at a shoegaze show or rave night just as much as you are surrounding you in the pit, especially if you’re out in Los Angeles. Akin to the softer palette pivots by dreamy trip-pop revivalists crushed and ’90s freestyle dance house rebuilders Nuovo Testamento, their scene peers 16 Underground are making their own new look in sound just as effortlessly cool with an effervescent turn into experimental trip-hop territory on “With Glimpse Of You”, the lead single from the four-piece’s new EP, Without a Trace.

As much as the aesthetics-and-vibes-forward stylings baiting the algorithm have started to become played out — especially within this broader prism of sound — the four-piece of vocalist Hannah Campbell, guitarists Andres Sanchez, guitarist, bassist and keyboardist Edward Barraza, and drummer Christian Ramos don’t sound all too concerned with putting any of that into focus. Instead, this is pure mood-boarding a nighttime listen with nocturnal synths and the slightest ripple of riffage that flows through the backbeats with an impossible ease. “Can’t make out the words / What’s real?,” wonders Campbell. Transcending what’s already known is one way to come into their own without necessarily having to be seen…

16 Underground’s Without a Trace will be released August 14th on Sunday Drive Records.