Young Ejecta

Young Ejecta formed in 2007 around Michael Ian Cummings and Nate Denver, who came out of Portland, Oregon. They put out four albums between 2009 and 2017, starting with Ephemeral and ending with Tell Me I'm Alive. Their songs like Build A Fire and Welcome To Love have a kind of hazy, electronic feel, with Cummings' voice floating over synthetic textures.

Their 2015 album Centralia was built around the story of an abandoned Pennsylvania town, which gave the music a particular mood. The band's sound doesn't sit neatly in one genre, it's part indie rock, part ambient electronics, and it tends to create its own space rather than follow trends. They kept at it for about a decade, quietly building a catalog that feels more like a series of specific atmospheres than a conventional career arc.