After shares new single “Fell Asleep in the Sun,” the title track of their debut album, Fell Asleep in the Sun, arriving September 18 via Mom + Pop Music. The new song follows their previously issued singles, “Take Me to Sunrise” and “Promise,” both of which are backed by related visuals that speak to the duo’s intentional world-building approach of fusing textures from the past into something that could only exist today.
Their album will be out just before they go on a 16-date tour starting in Denver at the end of September, traveling across North America and wrapping up in the duo’s home of Los Angeles. Tickets are now available for purchase HERE.
The Los Angeles pop-rock duo’s next album, Fell Asleep in the Sun, is an in-depth look at impermanence, the ephemeral quality of some moments, and how we hold onto what’s important as time marches on. Ahead of its release, After, which is comprised of Justine Dorsey and Graham Epstein, who share the same birth date and year, explained, “We both turned thirty this year, which feels like an evaluation point.” It’s this common milestone that guides the album’s theme of contemplating the passage of time, the quiet melancholy of aging, and the hope that continues even as the world around you changes. While making the album, the duo’s memories of mall soundtracks and their experiences surfing the internet’s endless archive met at a unique crossroads where grungy guitars, trip-hop, drum & bass, earworm melodies, and shoegaze textures are distilled into pop through an unmistakably modern lens entirely of their own.
After began in 2023 after the band members met on the dating app Hinge. After rapidly realizing that their relationship wasn’t intended to be romantic, it instead became a musical partnership. Since then, the team has carved out a niche for themselves, making addictive pop music that mixes “moody drum and bass, grungy guitars and shadowy trip-hop with bright mall-pop chords and flourishes.”
The band published its first extended play, “After” EP, in April of last year, preceded by singles “Obvious,” “Ever” and “300 Dreams” that first caught their notice and earned early accolades from sites including Rolling Stone, People Magazine, The FADER and CLASH. Later in 2025, the band will release its second EP, “EP 2,” on Mom + Pop Music, which features the singles “Deep Diving” and “Outbound,” the latter of which was featured on Zane Lowe’s 26 for ‘26 playlist. Since then, After have launched their Gap campaign and had their music featured in Apple advertising.
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