late night drive home

One Liner:  A little Strokes, a little Nirvana, for some rockers from El Paso

Wikipedia Genre:  No Wikipedia, but rock and roll

Home: El Paso

Poster Position: 23
Weekend Two Only.
Friday at 12:55.

Honda Stage.

Thoughts:  Their top song crushes the rest of their output, making me think this is another TikTok tune.  It also sounds like an attempt to be the Strokes.  "Under Supervision" has a shoegaze meandering thing going on.  "Sleeping in Cars" is a little more rock forward, but still with some "Fascination Street" guitars going on sometimes.  But the overall vibe after a few hours is kind of a young people's soft rock.

Anchor & Braille is a band with an album called Songs for the Late Night Drive Home.  This is not that album.  Instead, this is a band of guys from near El Paso.  Two of them met in 2019 and were trying to make and produce music as a fun project, but in 2022 they got serious and recruited two more members.  They popped on TikTok with a song called "Star Love" and started pushing for more.  I read a fun thing where they were talking about how they came up with "Stress Relief," and it involved trying to indie-fy a Doja Cat song.  Which is interesting for sure.  But they have a thing where their photos hide their faces, like they are looking at the ground or grabbing their heads.  Which is odd.

2021's Am I sinking or Am I swimming was their first EP, and it has "Stress Relief," which is still their top streamer by a lot.  77.6 million.

Okay, so it is not a full-on "we don't show out faces" thing, they are just doing a bit sometimes.  Doesn't that sound like the Strokes?  Pleasant.  Kinda messy and groovy.  Their first album was 2022's How Are We Feeling?, but no songs on there really got going.  The first one has 4.3 million, second one has 1.1 million, and then it goes down from there.  Which is too bad, it is not a bad album.  Maybe people just aren't as in to the Strokes sound anymore...  We'll go with their newest single so that you can catch their current vibe - "Believe Me (Even if I'm Lying)," with 401k streams.

Definitely more of a rock and roll forward attack - some Bleach era Nirvana in that freakout near the beginning.  Feels very 90's buzz bin to me.  I wish there was more background on them.  For some reason the idea of a pack of El Paso dudes making music like this is interesting to me.  Depends on the schedule, but if nothing big is going on at the time, I can see going and enjoying this.