Written by Shea Roney

Following their debut LP Creature, an album that led with both conflicted sincerity and some long-lasting ruckus, Portland, Oregon’s own Pileup has become a shifting staple in the Pacific Northwest. Fronted by Nathan Urbach, Pileup has gone through several lineup changes, friends coming in and out of the city, now playing with consistent players Elian Conroy, Gray Hunter, Kyle Rosse and Jordan Krinsky. Today, Pileup return with their new track “Going Away”, the final single before their new album Leave The Light On out February 24th via a collab release with Pleasure Tapes Ltd. and Flesh & Bone Records.

There is a deep heeded stillness that sits firm amongst the breathy, harsh noise of “Going Away”, as Pileup revalues the use of sonic motion amongst open spaces – those spaces that are often left out to shiver for far too long. With an array of dripping guitars, the color of each instrumental voicing begins to glow and blur together, like stoplights through a rain-covered windshield, taking more effort to make out what road you’re headed down than it does to pull over and wait it out. “Unprotected by the shields of dusk / I’ve got to get out of this broken daydream,” Urbach sings, his voice becoming a soothing constant while being ever more enveloped in the track’s intoxicated pacing, as days begin to blend into nights and back into days altogether with such shocking ease.

You can listen to “Going Away” premiering here.

“Going Away” was engineered, mixed, and mastered by Nicholas Wilbur at The Unknown in Anacortes, WA. Cover art by Ash Vale

Pileup’s sophomore LP Leave The Light On, which will be released on February 24th, 2026 via Pleasure Tapes Ltd. and Flesh & Bone Records. The band will be performing the album in full at their release show that following Saturday, February 28th at the Leaven Community Center in Portland, Oregon.