El Paso-based outfit OkMark crafts an analog synth-driven take on space rock and psych rock, anchored by their frontman Marco’s deeply personal lyricism.

Their latest single “Sin Tu Permiso” is a brooding bit of lo-fi-like psych pop that seemingly channels JOVM mainstays Tame Impala and Kainalu but anchored around a swooning, desperate heartache and unease. The song captures a narrator, who’s paralyzed by their own fear in the face of an unbelievably difficult situation.

The band’s frontman explains that he wrote the song for anyone, who has wanted to leave a relationship but couldn’t — not because of their partners but because of what they would be leaving behind.

“I started working on the music on a Shinkansen train in Japan using an OP-1, building upon minor chords that already carried that weight of melancholy,” he explains. “The production reflects this: a Moog bassline [sic] at 90 BPM, dense layers of dark synthesizers, and vocals that crack at the emotional peak. It is dark electronica infused with the intensity of the Mexican bolero.”