five of them, from chihuahua up on the northern border and now based in mexico city. Fernando Mares sings and plays keys and guitar, Luis Carlos Valderrama and Carlos Amaya on keys and bass, Samuel Márquez on drums, Diego Bustillos on percussion. mexican band, english lyrics, vocoder and talkbox, all of it played rather than programmed.

"Don't Wait Up" went round the internet in early 2025 and it was never meant to be a song. it started as a loop they improvised on stage, and they only built the studio version afterwards because audiences kept asking for it.

It's not something that is written. It is something that flows, and we don't know what we are going to do next.

fernando mares, atwood, 21 august 2025

Tender Love followed in april 2025, put out themselves. then 89 shows in fifteen countries to more than two hundred thousand people in one year, which is how a band goes from a loop to a Sony deal.

It's a love letter to the road and everyone losing their mind on it alongside us.

fernando mares on "runaways," june 2026

they are out on the Empire of the Sun run this summer alongside Polo & Pan, which is why the two of them keep landing on the same line of our tours page. red rocks on 11 august.