Lo Fi Duo Sub*T Celebrate Long Distance Friendships With New Single “Too Soon Too Long”

Friends Jade Alcantara and Grace Bennett started Sub*T as a way to get out of the mosh pit and onto the stage. They picked up the guitar and got to songwriting – from sides of the country. As a long-distance duo, their indie rock sound comes from a place of solitude and limited distractions. On the long-distance songwriting process, Grace Bennett, lead guitarist and vocalist, commented, “I honestly think that the distance lets us be more creative sometimes because when we have to do our parts of the songs we’re just by ourselves in our rooms. Not that I feel pressured, but there’s just more of a sense of nobody can hear me right now and nobody can listen and hate what I’m doing. I can just do whatever I want right now and record this in a machine that no one else has to hear if I don’t want anyone else to hear it. A lot of times, that just makes stuff that’s actually really good because you’re not afraid and you can just be yourself.”

Now onto their sophomore single “Too Soon Too Long”, the pair are celebrating their friendships by acknowledging their long-distance situation. “Jade actually said a line from the song in the car one day,” said Grace Bennett of Sub*T. “She said, ‘Our hair grows when we’re apart.’ I thought that would be a really great song lyric and captures the feeling of when you’re apart from your friends how much you can change when you feel so close to them, even if you’re 3,000 miles apart.”

The carefree hooks and fuzzy guitars give it a rich and appealing bedroom punk energy, as the charming lyrics and delivery veer into more lo-fi territory for the friendship love letter. Even though the song was written before the pandemic, Jade adds, “It’s perfect with the timing of everyone being able to safely see their friends and family again. It seemed like the perfect time to let this one out into the world“.

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