Drop Nineteens – Hard Light

After forming as Boston University students in 1990, Drop Nineteens released two albums and a couple EPs before breaking up in 1995. In that time, they endured significant lineup turnover, and their sound changed dramatically between 1992’s shoegaze pillar Delaware and 1993’s largely forgotten National Coma. It was a whirlwind five years. Radiohead and the Cranberries opened for them. They toured with Blur and PJ Harvey. Their single “Winona” got played on MTV. They did coveted live sessions on BBC Radio One. They covered magazines. They were a big deal — and then they weren’t.

But now they are again. In the intervening years, and the last half-decade in particular, scores of millennials and Zoomers have discovered their music online and become enraptured by it. Drop Nineteens boast nearly 140,000 monthly Spotify listeners, with millions of streams on tracks like the eight-minute bliss-binge “Kick The Tragedy” and the noise-pop dollop “Winona.” All of that attention for a band who haven’t performed since 1995, and whose records have never been reissued.

2023 sees the band's first new release in 30 years- Hard Light. Available here on 'crystal' coloured vinyl.