late night drive home - as i watch my life online *Pre-Order

Release Date Friday 8th August 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

late night drive home have never known a world without Wif -- 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
frst 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 Party
Since 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 fnally found their
destination after that long drive.

Tracks: as i watch my life online / she came for a sweet time / day 2 / opening a
door / american church / modern entertainment / uncensored on the internet / if i fall
(would you crawl under my skin) / deadstar / if i knew i was dying (i would stare at the
sun) / last seen online / terabyte / she'll sleep it off

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