El Paso, Texas indie rockers, late night drive home, have officially signed to legendary label Epitaph Records. The band has been compared to the 2000s garage rock revival bands like The Strokes or the Arctic Monkeys. They released their first EP, Am I Sinking or Am I Swimming, in 2021 and dropped their debut LP, How Are We Feeling?, in 2022.
“Since the start of late night drive home, we knew we wanted to keep making music even if it meant we had to do everything ourselves,” explain the young band about the signing. “Signing with Epitaph now allows us more freedom in the creative process of making music. We would always watch Epitaph music videos on YouTube from bands like Escape The Fate or The Garden. We are excited to be backed by Epitaph and are learning every day that music is an ever-evolving art form and we are happy to create freely.”
To celebrate the big event, the band released a new music video for their popular track “Stress Relief,” which has already been streamed over 60 million times. “We still really can’t understand the success of Stress Relief … of course we are grateful, though to us we still see it as the song that we made in our bedroom,” the band explain. “It’s a very personal track, and we are just glad it was able to resonate to everyone as much as it did with us while creating it.”
The video, directed by jaydog & bar, uses lo-fi and low-budget special effects to harken back to the 2000s, the era that the band get compared to the most. Check out the video below.
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Photo courtesy of Jaydog and Bar
