There have been famous stories of how bands broke up: from The Beatles to Guns N’ Roses and, most recently, One Direction. But for Jason Pascucci, Andrew Quinn, and Jacob Blondin, they all were former bandmates that came together again to form an entirely new band with a new sound. 

The new band, Lielack, is named after Pascucci’s wife’s favorite flower with a more ominous spelling.

“It just kind of happened,” Blondin said. “We wanted to write music.”

Based out of Worcester, Pascucci is the vocalist and is an engineer full time. Quinn plays guitar and is a woodworker, and Blondin is on drums and owns a plastering business. The group hopes to inspire hybrid sounds, merging pop and punk into their own nu-punk style.

“We love it. We want to have a career,” Blondin said. “That’s what our goal is. Doing music is kind of like our church.”

Blondin added that since Covid-19 the group has become more “self-sufficient.” The band records their own demos. The recordings are sent to Danny Couture in Los Angeles, who is under Marshmello’s label. Couture used to be in a band with Blondin, who said that Couture has now “made it” and adds a lot of insight to Lielack’s work.

The trio’s talents came into the scene with their debut single “Nu4U,” which was released in September. The song starts a theme for the band around self-awareness.

“I want people to maybe take a minute and think about who they are, how they come across, and do they even fully know themselves,” Pascucci said. “A lot of introspection in the sense of really who you are.”

Lielack became popular for what is now known as a ploy for their “Nu4U” music video. In July, a marriage proposal at a Worcester Red Sox game went viral, when his girlfriend publicly rejected him. The scene is the beginning of Lielack’s video, which follows Pascucci as he wants to become “someone new” and “sell his soul” to “be good enough” for his girlfriend. 

“The first song was about self-worth,” Pascucci said. “Nu4U is about changing your entire identity for whoever you’re dating, your whole personality for whoever you’re with, self-love and self-worth, and trying to recognize and embrace that.”

Pascucci said that the song flows almost as a ballad. There’s a self-realization at the end of “Nu4U,” in which Pascucci sings that maybe he is good enough.

The music video ends with a newscaster analyzing the “failed proposal.”

Lielack has now released its second single, “Walls,” which features Kelaska, a Connecticut-based singer-songwriter. 

“I wanted it to be about how we’re both unaware of our own walls and deflection rather than looking at yourself,” Pascucci said.

The music video for “Walls” was filmed at the recognizable Worcester-classics– Seed to Stem and Bedlam Books, both located at 138 Green St.

Pascucci teased that the next song will be more about drugs, alcohol, and mental health. He has been in recovery for eight years. Pascucci references the idea of coping with “being yourself.”

“It’s about being yourself in a world that’s not really equipped to handle that for some reason,” Pascucci said. “That kind of self-reflection has been probably the most important part of my life.”

The song will be released at the end of November. Going forward, Lielack said that the band will be releasing singles and a video once a month until they have enough for a show.

“Then we’ll start flipping the city upside down,” Pascucci said.

He said his first-show dream is to play at the Palladium. The band wants to one day hopefully play in a festival as well.

“These songs can come off as a little bit simple and maybe even a little juvenile,” Pascucci said. “But the themes, I want them to be real. I don’t want it to be ‘I like her but she doesn’t like me’…I want these themes of ‘who am I.’ I think it’s important for people to think about that.”

Pascucci said that Lielack takes these themes and is challenged with putting them to music that gets stuck in listeners’ heads. Pascucci mentioned that he has heard music about similar ideas, but they were very obscure sounds.

“The scene that we’re in is so big in LA right now,” Pascucci said. “Our goal is to bring it out here.”

To purchase Lielack merchandise, including hoodies, t-shirts, and beanies, go to lielackmusic.com.