We spent a day with ear for a new FADER documentary

A few minutes into The FADER's latest documentary with ear, one gets the sense that the fast-rising electronic band is totally winging it. As the members themselves, Jonah Paz and Yaelle Avtan, explain over breakfast at a London diner, they weren't really friends and didn't even really know each other when they decided on a whim to become a band. "But then the second we locked in," Paz says, "we kinda locked in."

That was only two years ago at Bard College, where their stints at the school overlapped for just a brief two weeks before Avtan had to leave after breaking both of her legs (you'll need to watch the doc for more info). Since then, Paz and Avtan have become one of the most talked-about bands in New York City and the online, indie-electronic scene. A smattering of glitchy, early releases spread their name word-of-mouth. By the time they released their debut album, The Most Dear and The Future, in September 2025 (which contained one of FADER's favorite songs that year), they were opening shows for artists like Yung Lean.

In this doc, director Alex Hodor-Lee hung out with the band over a day in London where they were in town to play two sold-out shows. Accompanying them as they roamed through through parks and public transit, it's a time capsule of the duo as they prepared to play one of their last small rooms, maybe ever, having already eclipsed it on their latest headlining tour.