Telecoms is Brooklyn-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sean McVerry (who has previous credits working/touring with artists such as Karen O, Danger Mouse, AURORA, and pieces of the roster on J Cole’s Dreamville label). The project — which melds 60s brit-pop influence with touches of late 2000’s NY indie grit and hints of cheeky theatrics — recently made its debut with a first single entitled “Ramon,” and now, it’s being followed up with the release of another track, “Two Steps,” alongside an accompanying video directed by Matt Speno.

On the track, McVerry wrote:

“‘TWO STEPS,’ like many of the initial songs from TELECOMS, began in a cluttered home studio. In a way it was written as an escapist response to the lockdown – a velvety-theatrical daydream.”

Both “Ramon and “Two Steps” were co-produced and mixed by former DFA engineer Abe Seiferth at Transmitter Park studios in Brooklyn. They were originally written and roughly produced in late 2020 in Sean’s home studio in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. After moving a free piano found on Craigslist into the apartment (and nearly being crushed to death in the process), the early forms of the songs came together quickly. Both were different takes on the current isolated situation the pandemic had put everyone in — “Ramon” being a groovy meditation on feeling trapped with his neighbors in their apartment building, and “Two Steps” being more of an escapist tune longing for the sweaty dance parties of pre-pandemic life in Brooklyn.

After writing them, the tracks sat sort of dormant in a notebook and a hard drive (the fate of many songs), until a writing retreat in 2021 with fellow collaborators Zeno Pittarelli and Darryl Rahn brought them back into the world. At that point, an album revolving around a similar look-and-feel was starting to take shape and TELECOMS as a band and concept started to come into the picture. Sean linked up with engineer and producer and all around lovely man Abe Seiferth (DFA, Nation of Language, Guerrilla Toss), and the two of them worked to take the rough and ready bedroom recordings of Sean’s and polish them into undeniable retro future classics. Both songs were written and recorded by Sean McVerry, with additional production and mixing from Abe Seiferth, additional production and mastering from Zeno Pittarelli, and artwork from Molly Styslinger.