Mellow shoegaze alt rockers PILEUP walk through their mesmerizing album "Leave The Light On"

Mellow shoegaze alt rockers PILEUP walk through their mesmerizing album "Leave The Light On"

There’s a steel water tower at the end of a gravel turn on the outskirts of Portland, half-swallowed by evergreens, immense and alien and industrial against all that green. Nathan Urbach grew up nearby, used to walk down to it daily, sit underneath it, sometimes climb it. “It has this almost extraterrestrial, kind of existentially overwhelming energy to it,” he says. That water tower is on the cover of “Leave The Light On,” the new Pileup record…