Kevin Bronson on June 12th, 2019

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Rose Dorn is not a person but a trio of young San Fernando Valley denizens who make raw-bone but affecting indie-rock in the vein of Girlpool. Today, the trio of Scarlet Knight, Jamie Coster and Joey Dalla Betta announced they have signed to Bar None Records, which will release their debut album “Days You Were Leaving” on Aug. 23.

With the news came the album’s first single, “Shaking,” an alternately upbeat and tender rocker about that which shakes lives, with Coster and Knight trading vocals. “‘Shaking’ is about a select few experiences we’ve seen spin people out of control, and the coping mechanisms that have brought them back to reality,” the band says. “While the experiences are largely disconnected, they all seem to be related by trauma of varying degrees, from the rejection by a supposed soulmate to the death of a loved one. It’s obviously pretty intense. I think that’s why we like it being a fun, upbeat song — we had fun playing with that gap between feeling and expression.”

Like the band’s two EPs, 2017’s “Speak Later” and “Call Her,” the album was made with engineer Phil Hartunian.

“We wanted to present an experience more than a collection of songs,” Dalla Betta says. “The record’s about endings and beginnings, of looking simultaneously backward and forward.”

||| Stream: “Shaking”

||| Also: Stream “Collar” and “Dirt”