CHICAGO-BASED BAND OK COOL RELEASES ‘SONGS FROM THE SPARE ROOM’ TWO-SONG SINGLE

If you long for a charming union of noodly math rock and queer-themed shoegaze, look no further than emo duo OK Cool, aka Bridget Stiebris and Haley Blomquist. These Chicago shredders not only play twangy riffs deep enough to be in a Foxing song, but they also prove their shoegaze mastery through beautifully reverberated telecasters and transcendent vocal effects. –Joshua Carter

After the release of their EP Surrealist in 2021 comes two new songs, “Time And A Half” and “Self-Sow.” The band describes the first single as a reaction to the twisted sense of time caused by the ongoing pandemic. “Everything we used to mark the passing of time has disappeared. It’s about grappling with your changing sense of what you knew and thinking…maybe none of that mattered anyways.“