The Backseat Lovers’ new album “Waiting to Spill” fits the mold of their previous indie tracks without anything crazy.

The album, which released Oct. 28, has some fun quirks to it; even in its first track, “Silhouette.”

That track plays a lot with crescendos into deep instrumentals that take up all the auditory space in your ears. To counter these crescendos, “Silhouette” has a lot of sudden decrescendos into ambient, echoey moments.

This ambience flows well into the end of the song as the instrumentals fade out and leave the listener with a single, voice-like sound moving from ear to ear. Then, the listener is transported to a roadside, hearing bugs and a car go by as a guitar fades in and is suddenly cut off as the song ends.

In an article from Consequence of Sound, band member Joshua Harmon said “Silhouette” was the most intricate track production-wise. Harmon described the process of achieving the sounds near the end of the song as “blaring a droney ‘E note’ out the side of a moving vehicle toward a pair of microphones to capture the Doppler effect, creating a natural key change.”

It’s cool hearing about the effort that goes into something, and I think this type of effort truly does transport the listener.

This is the second full-length album from The Backseat Lovers and comes in at a little over 47 minutes across the 10 songs. The band’s first album, “When We Were Friends,” released in 2019 and holds the band’s most popular track, “Kilby Girl.”

But none of this album really matches the vibe of the song that lent them the most listens, and I’m glad for that. Other songs on their first album have a calmer tone, and the new album continues that intimate feeling.

The intimacy in “Waiting to Spill” is not just found in the instrumentals, but in the lyrics too. Lyrics like, “When I wake up/ And the dream is over/ Packed away/ My life moving slower/ Oh, I’d hate to get any older/ … I have to get older,” on “Close Your Eyes” feel vulnerable and can be a point of relatability for the listener. This is a topic that many of us as college students have to deal with.

Even on an instrumentally hopeful song like “Follow the Sound,” there are lyrics that can seem down. “And this troubled head of mine is making its big debut,” sounds like rough times, but it is shortly followed up with “I sincerely want to get better,” matching the tone of the instruments.

A few of the tracks from this new album have been released as singles over the past few months.

The first single to drop, “Growing/Dying” has the most Spotify listens against the rest of the album. Harmon told Consequence of Sound that this track was the fastest one to come together. 

“All four of us were buzzing with an excitement … simply because of how instinctual it felt,” Harmon said. 

I love the range of time put into songs, from “instinct” and a couple of tries all the way to the effort put into the ambient sounds in the latter part of “Silhouette.”

This is easily an enjoyable indie album from The Backseat Lovers.

“Waiting to Spill” is streaming now on most music streaming services.