Kevin Bronson on April 6th, 2018

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Miles Garber, the model who founded Swimsuit Issue with guitarist David Gagliardi (of Trash Talk), describes the band’s sound this way: “It’s somewhere between hot running water and cold running water.” Which fits with Swimsuit Issue’s new single “EP3,” a restless current of hope and regret bulging with Oasis-sized guitars and stadium ambitions.

The smoldering rocker is the follow-up to “Look Now” and another sample of the EP that Swimsuit Issue plans to release later this year. Garber and Gagliardi, who founded the group after meeting at a New Jersey music conservatory in 2016 and bonding over ’90s British rock, have expanded their project into a seven-piece band that impressed everybody in the room when they played Resident in February. The band, which splits time between L.A. and New York, return to L.A. in May.

||| Stream: “EP3”

||| Live: Swimsuit Issue plays May 15 at Resident. Tickets. They also play May 16 at the Wayfarer in Costa Mesa. Tickets.

Their full West Coast tour schedule:

5/13 – Soda Bar – San Diego
5/15 – Resident – Los Angeles
5/16 – Wayfarer – Costa Mesa
5/17 – The Catalyst Atrium – Santa Cruz
5/19  – Turn Turn Turn – Portland
5/20  – Sunset Tavern – Seattle
5/22 – Rickshaw Stop – San Francisco