“Can’t keep hurting each other”
"Can't Keep Hurting" by El Paso shoegaze band EEP is a constant ascension of sounds. Layers of guitars, shifting drum beats, bass flourishes, and walls of vox creating a dense moving fog like a storm picking up speed. The song is informed by the grief embedded by a senseless act of violence in the city where the band resides.
AS EEP explains:
"Can't Keep Hurting was written after the mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart on August 3, 2019 that killed 23 people and injured 23 others. The song is about the grief and hurt we felt following a senseless, tragic act of violence and the confusion and sadness of not feeling safe in the world. Now, one year later, amid completely new difficulties, the song feels like a call to feel, to grieve, to reject hate and ignorance and build a kinder reality so we can all survive.
EEP wants to raise awareness for the continuing effects of this tragedy by donating to the CEA Survivors en Acción Scholarship Fund for children of victims of the mass shooting. You can find out more about this cause at pdnfoundation.org/give-to-a-fund/survivors-en-accion."
-EEP
Can't Keep Hurting is from EEP's recently released full length, "Death Of A Very Good Machine".
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Formed in El Paso, Texas in January 2019, EEP is an eclectic shoegaze band that got its start when Rosie Varela approached Ross Ingram, who owns Brainville Studios in Sunland Park, New Mexico. She asked him if he would help her record a song she had written called “Hogar.” The pair hit it off as they worked together on a few other songs she already had.
As time went on, Varela invited some other local musician friends to join in and what started out as one song eventually evolved into an eight-song album entitled “Death of A Very Good Machine" (released on July 24, 2020). Guitarist/vocalist Varela brings a wide range of influences to her writing including blues, classic rock, 60s psychedelic as well as dream pop and shoegaze.
Ingram plays guitar as well as doing the tasks of recording and producing. Sebastian Estrada plays bass and synth, and he also helped Ingram with engineering as did Varela. Serge Carrasco plays guitar and Lawrence Brown III plays drums. All five members contribute vocals.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Formed in El Paso, Texas in January 2019, EEP is an eclectic shoegaze band that got its start when Rosie Varela approached Ross Ingram, who owns Brainville Studios in Sunland Park, New Mexico. She asked him if he would help her record a song she had written called “Hogar.” The pair hit it off as they worked together on a few other songs she already had.
As time went on, Varela invited some other local musician friends to join in and what started out as one song eventually evolved into an eight-song album entitled “Death of A Very Good Machine" (released on July 24, 2020). Guitarist/vocalist Varela brings a wide range of influences to her writing including blues, classic rock, 60s psychedelic as well as dream pop and shoegaze.
Ingram plays guitar as well as doing the tasks of recording and producing. Sebastian Estrada plays bass and synth, and he also helped Ingram with engineering as did Varela. Serge Carrasco plays guitar and Lawrence Brown III plays drums. All five members contribute vocals.
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