High Plains Drifters

The High Plains Drifters have honed a lovelorn sound like no other. Walking the line between mellowed-out rock and breezy electro-pop, their music playfully reimagines, reinvents, and redefines dreamy 80s New Wave, refracting the simple exhilaration of a time where futuristic synths, snappy hooks, and snarky storytelling dominated the airwaves. Listening to an HPD song is bound to stir a memory buried deep in the folds of the brain. Brilliantly weaving threads of love and loss—and the many tangled moments in between—Studnicky's lyrics and nonchalant pearls of wisdom speak to the soul, to the lovers in all of us who only know how to be true to the heart. Though they often traverse the terrains of relationships gone awry, a resounding hopefulness—a quiet resilience—always peeks through the cracks.