Boston band Drop Nineteens only existed for a few years in the early '90s, but their debut album, Delaware, is one of the great American shoegaze records of the scene's original era, and, for that matter, "Winona" is one of the great shoegaze singles, period. Delaware turns 30 this year, and with it comes some surprising news from the band: they're getting back together and making a new album, their first in nearly three decades.
The news comes from Drop Nineteens guitarist, songwriter and vocalist Greg Ackel on the band's Twitter: "Craig Rich somehow gets me on the phone in late 2021 to talk/coax shop, which is something I'm plain awful at (common knowledge to everyone with my number). But he is very, very good. I listen. And start thinking. I text Steve Zimmerman, just musing, to ask him what he thinks a modern Drop Nineteens single might sound like. We discuss. But I quite contentedly don't have guitars anymore. Hard to believe, but true, and the perfect out -- which Steve thwarts by express shipping a jazzmaster to my apt in Brooklyn."