#Nightjacket Following the Curve EP

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Los Angeles-based dream pop outfit Nightjacket — currently, founding members Louis Schultz and Jordan Wiggins, along with Andrea Wasse — originally formed back in 2015. The band’s current lineup was solidified when Schultz and Wiggins met Wasse in 2019 and bonded over their mutual love of dream pop and alternative pop from the 80s and 90s. With the release of 2021’s Following the Curve EP and 2022’s “Don’t Say a Word,” the Los Angeles-based dream pop outfit firmly established themselves in the city’s bustling music scene while firmly solidifying a sound anchored around lush soundscapes with elements of psychedelic Americana, jangly reverberated shoegaze and ambient alt-pope, pulsing beats and soaring vocals that paid homage to teenaged influences like Mazzy Star, The Sundays, R.E.M., and Cocteau Twins. Adding to a growing profile, the band’s material has received critical acclaim from a number of media outlets including Stereogum, SPIN, American Songwriter and Under The Radar, while receiving frequent airplay on KCRW. The band’s latest single “All of My Friends” is a Laurel Canyon-like take on dream pop rooted around shimmering and twangy acoustic guitar, gorgeous, layered three-part harmonies, remarkably catchy hooks and a driving groove before ending with a dreamy slow-burn fade out with bursts of twinkling keys. While recalling FRANKIIE’s gorgeous Between Dreams, “All of My Friends” is inspired by the sense arrested development and adroitness that only comes about as you get older, and you see your friends seemingly moving on to “more adult” lives without you. Written by the band’s Andrea Wasse, a self-proclaimed queen of arrested development, the song was written as a response to the band’s friends leaving Los Angeles over the last handful of years as a result of the writer’s and actor’s union strikes, the pandemic and housing crisis. Fittingly, Wesse felt like she was getting left behind — and perhaps as though she was in a state of perpetual adolescence. “We really tried to make the song a journey, so that it grows and has new elements that pop in and pull your attention as you listen along,” the band’s Jordan Wiggins says. “Hopefully it’s a ride for people, like rolling down Sunset Blvd., passing neon signs, peering into bars and turning in and out of alleyways until you get to where it’s bright again.”

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For episode 428, to say my guests are all that and a bag of potato chips would really be an understatement. From the band "Nightjacket," please give a warm welcome to Jordan Wiggins and Andrea Wasse! The new EP "Following The Curves" is out right now. It's so beautiful and defiantly worth a listen or two... or ten!!

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