Kevin Bronson on July 23rd, 2020

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Windows is the new indie-rock project founded by Matteo Arias (Mystic Braves/Golden Animals) and Spencer Alarcon, later joined by Australian bassist Sam Wotherspoon. After Windows debuted last year with the “The Ballad of Whiskey Pete,” Mystic Braves frontman Julian Ducatenzeiler and producer Ian Doer came on board.

Theirs is an easy-schmeezy blend of lo-fi psychedelia and surf music, with a hint of twang. They released two singles earlier this month, “Up All Night” and “Send It” — which wasn’t the plan Windows had for 2020. They had intended to release a full-length album, but because of landscape-altering world events, the quintet instead wrote and recorded the new singles, working remotely. The tracks were mixed and mastered by Ignacio Gonzales at Lolipop Records.

“It’s not an easy time to be alive, the world is pretty broken and there is no end in sight, we hope these tunes can lift some of that weight off people’s shoulders and provide a moment of solace,” Arias says. “It was a hard choice to postpone the release of the full-length album, which we had been working on for about a year, but we ultimately didn’t feel right about putting it out there when there was so much chaos and pain happening in the foreground.”

Of working creatively in the lockdown, he added: “It was a welcome challenge to create something meaningful with our friends while in quarantine. Sending takes and mixes back and forth, trying to get the right sound with the limited tools we had in our homes. It truly was an isolation collaboration.”

||| Stream: “Up All Night” and “Send It”