Don’t say goodnight
I don’t want to wonder why we’re chained so soon
In a room chasing lies
Exchanging sighs
Othering, the Dallas-born duo of Bryan Yalta and Isai Beltran, carry themselves like figures etched against twilight. Formed in late 2021 as Yalta’s solo vision and soon joined by his longtime school friend Beltran, the pair sharpened their presence with the 2023 EP Cheap Nights and a summer run across Texas. Now, their debut full-length Uptakes solidifies that foundation, with the new single Chasing as its central point of gravity.
Built on jangly guitars and synth textures that bloom and recede like shifting streetlights, Chasing thrives in its restraint. Bass and drums provide a steady pulse, while Yalta’s hushed vocals breathe like secrets spoken on the periphery of night. The song’s terrain is fragile and intimate: waiting by a door, fading smiles, sighs exchanged in rooms where lies hang heavy. A track suspended between the comfort of staying and the inevitability of departure, it reflects the delicate theatre of modern intimacy, where closeness often collapses into distance.
“Lyrically, the song is more intimate than distanced, but it kind of leads towards a kind of distance in the end,” Yalta explains. “There’s a contrast there that the song shares with the city of Dallas. Everything feels a bit separated, yet we’re all together in the traffic. So with that contrast in mind, we thought it’d be best to show some of the landscapes of Dallas—the commutes, the general scenery.”
That contrast sharpens further in the accompanying video, directed by Erick Chavez. Shot with a mid-90s sensibility, the footage bends into psychedelic hues and collaged fragments, solarized in bursts of colour. The lens wanders through highways, cemeteries, underpasses – those in-between places where routine and mystery coexist. The effect is both personal and collective, suggesting that every fleeting roadside image carries its own resonance, its own quiet plea for recognition.
The video’s DIY aesthetic, handheld and immediate, mirrors the restless electricity of youth searching for permanence amid constant drift. Dallas itself becomes a character: vast, sprawling, contradictory; a city both containing the band and pushing them further outward.
Chasing lingers like the echo of a voice across empty pavement, a hymn of hesitation and hope. For Yalta and Beltran, the track stands as a step into something larger: a declaration that intimacy and distance, much like traffic on a late-night highway, are bound to intertwine. And from that tension, music worth remembering is born.
Watch the video for “Chasing” below:
Throughout 2024, the duo released a string of singles promoted through a summer tour and a number of shows, playing alongside CD Ghost, Sucio, Future Nobodies, Night Ritualz, Raudiver, and more. Having recently performed with legendary post-punk band Gang of Four and San Antonio Darkwavers Haunt Me, the band is ready to showcase their newfound sound with their latest release.
Listen to Chasing below and order Uptakes here.
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