"About 2 years have passed since the compelling drum machine-led downtempo debut “Screw” by the Pomona, California-based solo project of composer, producer, guitarist and singer Jaq Miranda, under his Jaqobin nome de plume, and, although in the space of a handful of singles, the intriguing crossover sound, meticulously built around his trusted band, made of bassist Selvin Ceron and guitarist Alberto Gaytan, joined lately by the propelling drumming of Mateo Flores, seems increasingly leaning, at least in the latest couple of forays, to riff-laden Alternative Rock, Shoegazing realms, while the Darkwave & Post-punk bents still linger in the background, to find a fluid balance between atmospherics and dynamics, constantly replete with a resonant emotional weight.

The first single “Turning” taken from the anticipated upcoming EP “Shift”, deals with a troubled soul who struggles to gain ground against a merciless [employer].

Reminiscent of the equally surreal and moody, as well as droney and intense, hazy/heavy vibes, laced with hopeless romanticism, of bands such as Deftones, Nothing and Smashing Pumpkins, the dark, stirring and anguished “Turning” is driven by a vibrant interplay between a steady busy drum groove and distorted and ringing guitar layers, floating, somberly free-flowing, lacerated by pain-fueled excruciating surges, to keenly echo soft, distressed vocals, shifting into aching cries, amid drastic eruptions of visceral emotions."

- Fabrizio Lusso, WL//WH