No Swoon

Los Angeles-based duo, No Swoon, sketches the ephemeral. Every song that Tasha Abbott & Zack Nestel-Patt write together is a gorgeous vignette portraying some nameless, yet universal feeling. Abbott, who grew up in Los Angeles, was equal parts musical theater kid and daughter of an 80s goth. She grew up performing musicals and listening to Bauhaus and The Cure, before her interest turned to writing folk songs in the spirit of another of her heroes, Joan Baez. Nestel-Patt spent his youth in the Boston area, immersed in jazz and classical music as an aspiring professional upright bass player. These seemingly disparate backgrounds would soon create the core spark of the band-to-be, eventually trading in their acoustic instruments for fuzz-laden electric guitars and woozy synthesizers.

In 2019, No Swoon put out their self-titled debut album which sounds like what Sweet Static calls “a band performing at a DIY venue in the Twilight Zone.”. The expansive dream-pop epic explored literary themes, political protest, and intimate self-reflection.

The band’s forthcoming sophomore album, Take Your Time, is both a self-reflection and an appeal. It’s a record about growing up and growing into yourself, exploring difficult feelings in a way that transforms pain into understanding, regret into joy.