Today, Lou Salome — the NYC-based duo of Leah Hennessey and Jack Kilmer — share “Your Eyes Immaculate” from Just Something You Cared About In High School, their debut album due out November 21 on Babe City Records.

Listen to / watch “Your Eyes Immaculate” here and presave Just Something You Cared About In High School here.

With layers of crunchy guitar and screaming angelic voices, “Your Eyes Immaculate” features Kilmers’ fur-lined and dreamy hooks connected by a bridge of Hennessey’s satiny lace vocals that allude to the afterlife. Kilmer explains: “It’s our attempt at a dream pop anthem. The mixing was where it all came to life — Leah’s part in the bridge, which is weird, ASMR’y whispers, and beatboxing are all from the original demo we made. The song reminds us of L.A. and how haunted and psychedelic it is.”

Watch “Your Eyes Immaculate” Visualizer here

Just Something You Cared About In High School is an archive of love letters to a lost Eden, a chronicle of electric teenage dreams imbued with supernatural consequence and imperfect expressions of intimacy and vulnerability. While not exactly a concept album, Just Something You Cared About in High School is cinematic in scope, charting the alchemical process of infatuation, the spark of desire, the devastation of tragedy, and the allure of dream pop’s nebulous notion of salvation.

It’s a project replete with seance-worthy indie rock that spans universes of record nerd obsessions: beatnik noise poetry in the vein of Lou Reed or Sonic Youth; glammy power pop a la Teenage Fanclub or Supergrass; the gothic romance of The House Of Love; Duster’s narcotic slowcore; and everything in between.

Lead single “Faith,” which came alongside the album’s announcement last month, combines the raw exasperation of Jane’s Addiction’s “Jane Says” with the dreamy jangle of Galaxie 500 or The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, creating a warp through time and space. Watch the “Faith” video, directed by Leah Hennessey, here, and listen here.

Jack — a celebrated indie actor in films like Palo Alto and Lord of Chaos — and Leah — a director known for her work on John Early: Now More Than Ever and Zhe Zhe — first met in an acting class in New York where, during a snowstorm, they were assigned the campfire scene from My Own Private Idaho. They quickly discovered a shared obsession with obscure British post-punk and started playing shows immediately, getting the chance to open for underground legends like Ian Svenonius and Christeene.