Nashville-based indie act In Parallel — Lance Black, Jesse Fine, Ryan Parrish and Mark Nash, former members of Celebrity and Hopesfall — can trace it origins back to when the members of the band got together in the back room of a local picture frame shop. That night with nothing more than a looped electronic drum sample and a few guitars, the first notes they played became the framework of the project’s first song “Bridge and Tunnel.” 

Inspired by 80s pop, 90s shoegaze, and post-hardcore, the band aims to balance contrasting melodic, expansive and ambient moments within their material. Interestingly, it took them multiple recordings for the band to get the material on their debut Broken Codes correct; in fact, they had scrapped the first two version of the EP altogether. Thematically, the seven song EP touched upon power, control and human connection. 

The Nashville-based indie act’s sophomore EP, Fashioner is slated for a September 4, 2020 release through Wiretap Records. Recorded last year in the band’s home studio, the EP was supported with the help of successful crowdfunding campaign funded by the fans of their previous projects. And as the band claims, bypassing the traditional music industry structure gave them the freedom to lean into technology — and to push their sound and approach into new territory. 

Fashioner’s latest single “Deep Dark” is an expansive and ambitious  track, centered around shimmering guitars, atmospheric synths, an angular bass line and earnest songwriting which manages to reveal an unerring knack for a rousingly anthemic hook. And while managing to bring Slowdive, Lightfoils and Foals to mind, the track possesses a swooning and urgent romanticism that evokes being simultaneously lost and desperately in love.