Draag conjure experimental, hallucinatory shoegaze that feels like a decades-long curse is trailing them. After releasing a proper album last year — the excellent Dark Fire Heresy — they’re following it up with a new six-track EP, Actually, the quiet is nice, on the Philadelphia label Julia’s War, helmed by their shoegaze kin They Are Gutting A Body Of Water.
Today they’re sharing another single, “Microgravity tank,” which sounds completely haunting but still ascends into a swooning chorus. The Devonte Johnson-shot video, premiering below, captures the band’s warped energy, featuring Dora the Explorer gaining consciousness at a park. The result is bizarre and magnetic, coming ahead of their West Coast run with Wednesday later this month.
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“During my childhood in the San Fernando Valley, my family would often go to the Chuck E. Cheese in Sun Valley,” bandleader Adrian Acosta exclusively tells AP. “It was an excuse to keep my brothers and I occupied as kids. The Chuck E. mascot would always wave hello and goodbye, except one day, I said hello and waved like I usually would, but all they did was stare lifelessly through me. That unsettling feeling stayed with me and always reminds me of that strange time in my life at my old house in Lake View Terrace, which the lyrics and visualizer of ‘Microgravity tank’ lives.”
