Los Yesterdays are a Chicano soul band from LA based around the creative collaboration between Gabriel Rowland and Victor Benavides. On their upcoming debut LP, Frozen In Time, Los Yesterdays pay yearning, bleeding-heart homage to groups like Tejano brown-eyed soul legends Sunny & The Sunliners and the Midniters, a group of East Los Angeles teens whose frequently genre-agnostic work added a Chicano lilt to Black art. Like Compas, Thee Sacred Souls and Thee Sinseers, theirs is a new-old music.
On songs like “Loves Is A Game For Fools” and “Nobody’s Clown,” Los Yesterdays filter love-struck R&B crooning through guitar-strumming Mexican balladeering; the result is something that sounds like the Los Angeles of yesterday and today. The indelible, immovable Los Angeles of cruising Whittier Boulevard, of cold drinks on the porch on blazing summer nights, of watching a blue-orange toxic sunset and wondering if they are thinking about you.