Kevin Bronson on April 23rd, 2018

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The arrestingly melancholic “Lessons for Later” is the first new music from Slow Hollows since the full-length “Romantic,” released in late 2016, an album that propelled the indie-rock band led by Austin W. Anderson (fka Austin Feinstein) into a 2017 filled with a bunch of touring and an appearance in the cozy, air-conditioned Sonora Tent at Coachella. If Anderson first gained attention for collaborating with the likes of Tyler, the Creator, Frank Ocean and Brockhampton, “Romantic” earned him his own spurs with its plaintive, post-punk-derived sound, punctuated by horns. Slow Hollows are clearly bent on not being pigeonholed, and this new song has a lot of people struggling for descriptors (we’ll settle for “orchestral sadcore”), but the fact is that the freight of Anderson’s “lessons” are conveyed beautifully here. Plus, the video was directed by Brockhampton’s Kevin Abstract, which apparently means a lot to a lot of people.

||| Watch: The video for “Lessons for Later”