EEP's second album, Winter Skin, is a collection of nine new songs that expands and deepens the quintet’s engaging, exploratory shoegaze and dream pop sound.

Winter Skin

Slow Down

Time Crunch

Stargazer

Stubblefield

Today I Woke Up

Ángeles

A Message To You

No Inbetween

Hanging On A Wire

This is the first single from EEP's second album, Winter Skin (out November 5), a collection of nine new songs that expands and deepens the quintet’s engaging, exploratory shoegaze and dream pop sound! Winter Skin can be pre-ordered on Bandcamp at eepshoegaze.bandcamp.com.

New song available on "Aspirin Age (a shoegaze compilation)" from Broken Sound Tapes (link below) and as a single on our Bandcamp at eepshoegaze.bandcamp.com!

https://brokensoundtapes.bandcamp.com/album/aspirin-age-a-shoegaze-compilation

Here We Are

This is the second single from EEP's second album, Winter Skin (out November 5), a collection of nine new songs that expands and deepens the quintet’s engaging, exploratory shoegaze and dream pop sound! Winter Skin can be pre-ordered on Bandcamp at eepshoegaze.bandcamp.com.

This is the third single from EEP's second album, Winter Skin (out November 5), a collection of nine new songs that expands and deepens the quintet’s engaging, exploratory shoegaze and dream pop sound! Winter Skin can be pre-ordered on Bandcamp at eepshoegaze.bandcamp.com.

The first single from EEP's new album You Don't Have To Be Prepared, out November 1! Here's the story of the album:

It’s the late 70s, or perhaps the early 80s, and a middle-aged woman in Clay Center, Kansas–possibly named Anne–is leaving an audio message for her sweetheart in El Paso, Texas. She’s exiting her old life and entering a new one, jumping across the country and into her next chapter. A second chance at love, and an optimism that’s palpable through the recording; a recording that found its way to a Sunland Park, New Mexico studio housed by El Paso-based three-piece band EEP. 

To look for a sign that we’re heading in the right direction starts with curiosity. Things happen for a reason, but to understand that reason in the moment, we have to open ourselves up to the path beyond the other door opening. For EEP, this curiosity led them to an old dictaphone, reel-to-reel tape recorder inside a 1979 Hammond Cougar organ that had been sitting in plain sight for years. Faced with a new line-up, and no new plan of what to do for their new album, the recording offered the sign they were searching for. They set out to tell Anne’s story.

You Don’t Have To Be Prepared is an ode to doing what feels right. It’s a concept album that collectively quiets the overactive mind and amplifies the gut, nourishing the playful nature of why we create things, why we come together, why we make ‘the jump’. For members Rosie Varela (vocals, guitar, percussion), Ross Ingram (vocals, guitar, drums), and Estrada, (vocals, bass, drums), the open-endedness of Anne’s recording mirrored the open-endedness of their creative collaboration. Two members had recently left the band, including their drummer, and EEP were unsure of their next steps.

What they thought would be a restrictive process turned into a flourishing one. No drummer meant they all pitched in on percussion, and the three-piece quickly began stretching the skills they’d been building for years. You Don’t Have To Be Prepared showcases snippets of the layered, textural arrangements witnessed in their first two LPs, Death Of A Very Good Machine (2020) and Winter Skin (2021), but without the all-encompassing walls of guitar or reverb. You Don’t Have To Be Prepared is not an enclosure but rather a maze that encourages experimentation, quiet corners, lingering notes and unexpected revelations. 

Stress and anxiety fills up so much of our daily lives and this constant pressure to be ‘ready for anything’ can be seen on the tired faces of anyone’s gaze we might meet. “You don’t have to be prepared” became a mantra for EEP, and now it can be for others. For EEP, Anne’s recording came along just when they needed it.

-Sammy Maine

Ghost

The second single from EEP's new album You Don't Have To Be Prepared, out November 1! Here's the story of the album:

It’s the late 70s, or perhaps the early 80s, and a middle-aged woman in Clay Center, Kansas–possibly named Anne–is leaving an audio message for her sweetheart in El Paso, Texas. She’s exiting her old life and entering a new one, jumping across the country and into her next chapter. A second chance at love, and an optimism that’s palpable through the recording; a recording that found its way to a Sunland Park, New Mexico studio housed by El Paso-based three-piece band EEP. 

To look for a sign that we’re heading in the right direction starts with curiosity. Things happen for a reason, but to understand that reason in the moment, we have to open ourselves up to the path beyond the other door opening. For EEP, this curiosity led them to an old dictaphone, reel-to-reel tape recorder inside a 1979 Hammond Cougar organ that had been sitting in plain sight for years. Faced with a new line-up, and no new plan of what to do for their new album, the recording offered the sign they were searching for. They set out to tell Anne’s story.

You Don’t Have To Be Prepared is an ode to doing what feels right. It’s a concept album that collectively quiets the overactive mind and amplifies the gut, nourishing the playful nature of why we create things, why we come together, why we make ‘the jump’. For members Rosie Varela (vocals, guitar, percussion), Ross Ingram (vocals, guitar, drums), and Estrada, (vocals, bass, drums), the open-endedness of Anne’s recording mirrored the open-endedness of their creative collaboration. Two members had recently left the band, including their drummer, and EEP were unsure of their next steps.

What they thought would be a restrictive process turned into a flourishing one. No drummer meant they all pitched in on percussion, and the three-piece quickly began stretching the skills they’d been building for years. You Don’t Have To Be Prepared showcases snippets of the layered, textural arrangements witnessed in their first two LPs, Death Of A Very Good Machine (2020) and Winter Skin (2021), but without the all-encompassing walls of guitar or reverb. You Don’t Have To Be Prepared is not an enclosure but rather a maze that encourages experimentation, quiet corners, lingering notes and unexpected revelations. 

The artwork for You Don’t Have To Be Prepared is a collage of found vintage photos and pressed flowers collected from a local antique store. Strangers, tucked away in a box, probably forgotten, now on the cover of an album about taking a chance, and staying open to whatever’s next. This artwork is a testament to EEP’s ability to revive and renew, and to spotlight the unpredictable. Stress and anxiety fills up so much of our daily lives and this constant pressure to be ‘ready for anything’ can be seen on the tired faces of anyone’s gaze we might meet. “You don’t have to be prepared” became a mantra for EEP, and now it can be for others. For EEP, Anne’s recording came along just when they needed it.

Always

EEP's debut single, “Hogar,” is a song about feeling lost and alone in this world, and the feeling when a special person or people find you whose love helps to create a sense of an unbreakable home and belonging in your heart.

"Hogar" is from our debut album "Death of a Very Good Machine," which you can buy on 180 gram white vinyl or CD at eepshoegaze.bandcamp.com!

Hogar

EEP's second single, “Outlast You,” is a song about being steadfast against the forces in life that try to push us down. It was inspired by a conversation in which our lead singer, Rosie Varela, was told that maybe, at 52, she was too old to start a rock band. “Outlast You” is her response. 

EEP's debut single, “Hogar,” is a song about feeling lost and alone in this world, and the feeling when a special person or people find you whose love helps to create a sense of an unbreakable home and belonging in your heart.

"Hogar" is from our debut album "Death of a Very Good Machine," which you can buy on 180 gram white vinyl or CD at eepshoegaze.bandcamp.com!

Outlast You

From EEP's ethereal, noisy, expansive, high-energy debut album! You can buy "Death of a Very Good Machine" on 180 gram white vinyl or CD at eepshoegaze.bandcamp.com!

Death of a Very Good Machine

Closer

Can't Keep Hurting

Breathless

When It Was Over

Canal

Continuous version of EEP's ethereal, noisy, expansive, high-energy debut album!

Death of A Very Good Machine

Death of a Very Good Machine (Continuous Album)

Experimental dream pop band in El Paso, Texas - new album “You Don’t Have to Be Prepared” is out now on Bandcamp and all streaming services!

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