2070 from East Los Angeles are a band that everyone in the scene seems to know, yet they have remained underground at their core. Since releasing their first singles in 2021, they have built a discography of jangly noise rock, fuzzy punk, and experimental garage rock. With their latest single, “Transducer,” you’ll find that repeated listens allow you to cut through the noise until the melody reveals itself.
The lushness of the vocals and immediacy of the guitar combine to create a song that unsuspectingly has a huge payoff. The melody is introduced early, so you never lose it beneath the layers of noise that are thickly laid above it. Halfway through, the chord progression switches and then returns, but with a brand new sound added, adding nuance to a track that is built on repetition.
“I recorded this track at Danny’s house while I was checking on his dog over the holidays. Danny has a great, state-of-the-art home studio and plenty of interesting gear.
So, I took that as an opportunity to record a song that had been sitting in my voice memos for a couple of months. I couldn’t remember the actual guitar I was playing on the demo, so I added keyboards to replicate the fingerpicking parts and used Danny’s Death by Audio vocal delay pedal to record the vocals and the guitar solos. I made the drums in his Ableton and played all the guitar parts myself on his Jag-Stang guitar with his dog River as my witness.”
-bandleader Trevor Coleman on “Transducer”
“Transducer” is released ahead of 2070’s upcoming album, Big Blue, out February 6th, 2026 via Danger Collective. Preorder available here.
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