Stoke Signals Are “Making Enemies” With New EP

LA’s Stoke Signals have returned with their new EP, Making Enemies, that is out now via Hey! Fever Records, the four-song EP that captures the band’s loudest, rawest, and most collaborative work to date and follows up on their 2024 debut album, Make Dying Fun. The band leaned fully into their DIY roots, self-recording in their Culver City lockout space with amps dimed, drum mics aimed at a toilet for reverb, and gang vocals shouted behind bathroom doors. The chaos was later mastered by Paul Miner (Death By Stereo) who preserved the sweat-drenched live energy that’s quickly becoming their signature. The band have also shared a lyric video for the track The Beginning of Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade With River Phoenix Still Gets Me So Hyped. 

“This song is probably the most Stoke Signaly song of our discography. Not so much that it sounds the most like a Stoke Signals song (it actually doesn’t because most of our songs are E-C#m-A – now you know our secret) , but just like everything about how it was made. Jordan started the skeleton of the song with a demo he made for his old band he was in a few years ago that never got used. He uploaded it to the drive and then G stokified it with better riffs because Jordan sucks at guitar. Mike then made the drums super sick. After G wrote lyrics Chris and Jordan added some gang vocal parts and then we got Chris Stout from Heartwells to join in on the fun and we even added some organs to impress our uncle’s in Empired. At the time the song was called “Heart Attack On A Plane Over the Pacific” but one day Mike randomly texted our group chat saying: “the beginning of indiana jones and the last crusade with river phoenix still gets me so hyped” and we were like, you know what, that’s what this song needs to be called instead. It kind of works because that scene is super epic and this is one of our more epic songs, with the big riffy intro and one of our more dynamic bridges. If this song doesn’t get you pregnant, nothing will.”