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Photo by Devonte Johnson Hailing from Los Angeles, Draag make music that can best be described as shoegaze, although that's not completely accurate. Their latest single, "Orb Weaver," has that dreamy sound associated with shoegaze, but Draag take the genre off in their own direction. The guitars sound warped, and it's more of a small wave of sound brushing against your legs than the typical overpowering wave most shoegaze artists use. "Orb Weaver" takes the forty or so year old genre and moves it forward, and also a little bit to the left. Adrian Acosta says of his band's latest single: “Jess [Huang] and I go on night walks in our neighborhood often, probably because there’s no one around and we are obsessed with the eerie nostalgic quality of empty neighborhoods.  One summer, it was very hard to walk without running into a big orb weaver web. I have a severe fear of spiders. I used the night walks as a form of therapy but it got me in a fearful state in...

Photo by Julian Neel Austin's Natalie Jane Hill has crafted an absolutely perfect modern folk epic with "Orb Weaver." The song isn't a throwback or old timey by any means. Instead, it's a timeless folk/Americana song that could have been released any time in the past fifty years. It's a simple song, with Hill's mesmerizing vocals mixing expertly with a picked guitar and possibly some steel guitar poking out of the background for atmosphere. "Orb Weaver" is far more hypnotic than haunting, and is a truly beautiful, organic folk song from Hill. In a press release, Natalie Jane Hill says of the new song: “'Orb Weaver' is a song about comparing myself to the hidden intricacies that I might find on a walk in the woods. I attach most of my memories to what is visually around during a certain time. Sometimes there is a comfort to the natural world and other times there is a harshness. My experiences can almost mirror them. I’d like to think that...