Ironically, Gary Wright’s estate had no need to be contacted. Morbid, right?
Today, Draag have announced their highly anticipated new EP Actually, the quiet is niceand shared lead single “Orb weaver,” a potent dose of nostalgia where warped guitars and dense textures provide a backdrop for Jessica Huang & Adrian Acosta’s interlocking vocal harmonies.
Actually, the quiet is nice follows the Los Angeles bands critically acclaimed 2023 debut Dark Fire Heresy, and marks their first release on the Philadelphia label Julia’s War, run by like minded purveyors of forward-thinking shoegaze They Are Gutting A Body Of Water. The EP is due out May 17th ahead of a run of tour dates supporting Wednesday.
“Jess and I go on night walks in our neighborhood often, probably because there’s no one around and we are obsessed with the eerie nostalgic quality of empty neighborhoods,”shares Acosta, “One summer, it was very hard to walk without running into a big orb weaver web. I have a severe fear of spiders. I used the night walks as a form of therapy but it got me in a fearful state instead and dwelling on dark thoughts.”
Tour Dates:
05/14 – Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf
05/15 – Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom
05/16 – San Diego, CA @ Quartyard
05/17 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Bellwether
05/18 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
05/20 – Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall
05/21 – Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre
05/22 – Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre
05/24 – Missoula, MT @ Zootown Arts Community Center
05/25 – Bozeman, MT @ The ELM
05/28 – Denver, CO @ The Gothic Theatre
05/30 – Omaha, NE @ Slowdown
All shows supporting Wednesday