[Cover photo credit to Christian Kim]

Los Angeles-based Post-Rock/Shoegaze band Young Lovers have long been members of the city’s DIY scene. Comprised of guitarist Mikey Macapagal, drummer Eddie Ramos, bassist Josh Solomon, and vocalist Jonny Higa, the group’s members come from Filipino, Japanese, and Mexican-American backgrounds. They first connected by attending and organizing backyard DIY shows in the San Fernando Valley.

The band has just released their sophomore album, The Circle’s End. Alongside the album, they released the track, “Silver Lining Lost,” which is “a complete portrait of grief and loss.” 

The band shares about the album:

The Circles End is our portrait of grief, self-sabotage, and heartbreak, and the vicious cycles they trap us into. Young Lovers as a project exists as our collective outlet for thoughts and feelings we couldn’t process alone or through any other method, and so this album is us coming together to deal with our own struggles with these very issues. Referentially, this album pulls as much from post-rock and shoegaze as it does from our individual influences of classic pop, R & B, Alternative country, cool jazz, slowcore, and orchestral music, as those forms of music helped us survive and find meaning in difficult times in our lives. We sincerely hope this album can do the same for somebody else.

The Circle’s End is an “elegiac meditation on growing beyond the patterns that hold us back.” Under the guidance of Producer David Jerkovich (Robert Lester Folsom, Ted Lucas) the band’s guitar-driven sound becomes more expansive, incorporating orchestral arrangements and vocal harmonies while retaining their raw emotional core.