Late Night Drive Home - As I Watch My Life Online [VINYL]

late night drive home have never known a world without Wifi -- without access to the endless stream of joy, sorrow, heartbreak, and hope that we all tune in and tune out to on the daily. In many ways, the guys can't really extricate themselves from that reality -- even their band name comes from a random Wikipedia page -- but they're trying to at least grapple with it."Most of us grew up on the internet with unsupervised access at a very young age," says singer Andre Portillo. "As we started foreseeing all the outcomes -- both good and bad -- of this kind of access and advancement, we started writing... forming a sound and message that would become our next record." The culmination of that, then, is the buoyant yet ominous as I watch my life online, the band's debut album.late night drive home was born in El Paso, Texas, and Chaparral, New Mexico, hardworking communities where folks built their houses by hand and collars were mostly blue. Comprising guitarist Juan "Ockz" Vargas, singer Andre Portillo, drummer Brian Dolan, and bassist Freddy Baca, the entirely self-taught quartet released their first digital EP as a full band, 2021's Am I sinking or Am I swimming?, and blew up with the single "Stress Relief," a blast of early-Aughts indie that racked in tens of millions of streams. After they signed with Epitaph Records in 2023 -- and releasing 2024's grunge-inspired 3 song EP i'll remember you for the same feeling you gave me as i slept -- they found themselves playing stages their indie idols previously shredded: Coachella, Shaky Knees, Austin City Limits, and Kilby Block PartySince the end of the pandemic, though, the band had been dreaming up as i watch my life online. "I started thinking about the time after the pandemic and how much things were changing," says Vargas. "So the whole album is a critique of social media and the way we use the internet to distance ourselves from each other." The resulting suite of tracks is a series of online vignettes that hammers home the band's message: the photos on your phone shouldn't be your identity; your posts aren't your inner monologue. A bigger life is lived where there's no service -- in your hometown on a late night road with your friends, and on stage, where the band finally found their destination after that long drive.

as i watch my life online

opening a door

uncensored on the internet

last seen online

she came for a sweet time

american church

if i fall (would you crawl under my skin)

terabyte

day 2

modern entertainment

deadstar

she'll sleep it off

if i knew i was dying (i would stare at the sun)

• Genre: Indie
• Product Type: Vinyl
• Barcode: 8714092806939
• Release Date: June 27, 2025

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