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 Photographed by Razy Faouri The Simps, the brainchild of psych-garage artists, Eyedress and zzzahara is set to release their debut album _Siblings_ on March 14 via Lex Records. After meeting after and Eyedress show in the fall of 2018, two started writing songs together and having zzzahara joining Eyedress’ band once discovering their newfound connection. Today, they release their third single off their forthcoming album, “Tesla.” The Simps have recently release tracks “[**Miss Fortunate**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giHftNYcLVU)” and “[**On Fye**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqkTI27iFQM).” “When I saw Idris, I got a lot of encouragement,” zzzahara shares “My dad wanted me to be a money-making machine and my mom’s an immigrant from the Philippines, and so to her, a lot of things weren’t possible for me being a person of color and being gay.” “I literally just let Z do their thing,” Eyedress adds “I feel like when we work together, we’re just making the styles of music that we’re a fan of, and because we’re into the same shit, we just end up making something totally new.” He continues, “I’m just proud that we’re Filipino and we get to do this. Most of the artists that I look up to in this indie world are white, and I think it’s cool that we’re amongst these people and we can even connect with kids in the hood who don’t even have a bunch of white friends but still feel the same things. They’re just human feelings. Everyone can relate.”