Deep Sky Objects formed in January 2025, started playing shows almost immediately after, and had their second EP finished inside two weekends. Brian, the band’s lead singer and guitarist, describes their whole approach as “catchy, quick, energetic and unexpected,” and the pace of “New You” bears that out.
The Brooklyn three-piece landed together through skateboarding and prior music connections. Their individual backgrounds don’t obviously point toward shoegaze — Latin Jazz, Prog Rock, and Black Metal all get namechecked — but the project’s goal was always pretty specific: hard-hitting shoegaze songs that are equally catchy and disorienting. Big sound, three people, minimal fuss.
Brian had been making shoegaze, ambient, and folk music for years before moving to NYC, where playing live became the priority.
Their first EP was recorded by Brian himself at the band’s practice space, a handful of SM58s and Logic Pro. The recorded stuff is designed to closely resemble a live sound — minimal overdubs, no studio gloss.
“I’m far from a professional producer,” he says, “but I think the final product was honest to our process and where we were as a band at the time.” The second one, “New You” — out March 22 — was a different deal. Two weekends at Thump Studios in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, working with Mark Bennett of Channel Vessel. First time in a real studio. Three original tracks and a Yo La Tengo cover (Bandcamp only).
“Banner of Light,” the EP’s opening track, is the one Brian points to as the clearest statement of what Deep Sky Objects are doing. Lyrically, it’s about self-actualization — personal journey stuff, told through what he describes as “warbly chord progressions and angular, melodic hooks washed in a haze of reverb.”
The track captures the project’s broader preoccupation with self-reflection and introspection through psychedelic mind states and nature. “It’s a track that both sonically and lyrically embodies the philosophies and themes of the whole project,” Brian says.
The band has been road-testing this material live for a while — which is part of why the recording came together so fast. They’re playing Pianos Bar in New York on May 1st. More songs are apparently waiting in line; as Brian puts it, “we just need the time (and money) to record them.”
Stream “Banner of Light” and two other new singles now.
