Steel Wool Scrub Up for New EP Featured
- Written by Marky Edison
On April 10, rising Los Angeles shoegazers Steel Wool will share their self-titled debut EP (cassette and digital) via independent LA label Bug Body. Born out of their drummer Evan’s bedroom studio, Steel Wool has been making waves across the southland with plenty of local radio love, including shoutouts from KCRW and a live session at KXLU.
The group, consisting of Sean Lissner (guitar/singing), Jaden Amjadi (bass/screaming), Sam Schlesinger (guitar), and Evan Landi (drums) have developed a reputation for their boisterous live shows in garages, backyards, and DIY haunts of all stripes.
Their eponymous debut finds the dream-pop upstarts pushing the edges of the otherworldly, fuzzed-out sounds that inspired them. A reverb-drenched ode to wasting away, ‘Fading’ builds a hazy, atmospheric soundscape of modulation before erupting into an onslaught of feedback and noise.
Meanwhile, tracks like ‘Another Sunday’ and ‘Tired Movements’ revel in the subdued yet restless tension between Lissner’s pining vocals and the band’s ruminative instrumental concoctions. On 'Heaven or La Brea’, the band lets go of their restraints, and crescendos from a bursting-at-the-seams indie-rock anthem to a blistering collage of distortion.
Steel Wool is celebrating the release with a show in Los Angeles at Silver Lake’s El Cid on April 22 with support from bedbug and standingandlookingaround.
