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1.21 GIGAWATTS OF SONIC POWER

Shockingly little is known about the mythology surrounding I Don’t Know How But They Found Me (colloquially iDKHow, because ain’t nobody got time for that), but we do know this much: they’re an aesthetic-heavy and esoteric two-piece doling slick, enigmatic new-wave indie-pop with a scorching post-rock edge.

Their name is a quote from the ’85 classic Back To The Future, which is fitting given the duo’s audacious affection for the era. In fact, part of the (semi-)official narrative declares that iDKHow are either the modern-day prophets for a “lost band” that circled the underground bar-band scene in the late ‘80s, or that very band themselves.

Spearheading this peculiar new project is vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Dallon Weekes (ex-Panic! At The Disco) and drummer Ryan Seaman (ex-Falling In Reverse), taking the incandescent summeriness of Weekes’ former outlet, The Brobecks, and pumping it

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