Some musicians mull the idea of starting a band but never make it happen. And then there’s Samuel Blasco, who’s in three of them. The Las Vegan first made a name for himself in 2012 as the frontman of punk band Narrowed—and while Blasco says that outfit is “still hibernating,” there’s new music on the horizon, not just from Narrowed but from Blasco’s latest project, Sunroom.

“It’s my songs and mostly my arrangements set up as a full band,” Blasco explains. Influenced by ’90s emo bands like Saves the Day and ’80s post-punk stalwarts such as The Cure, the singer first started writing upbeat, indie-leaning emo songs as Sunroom a few years ago, but he only just recently finalized a lineup. Featuring Nick Boswell (Bad Phantom) on bass, Samuel’s brother Charlie Blasco (Narrowed) on guitar and Anthony Braun (Half Past) on drums, Sunroom tackles life’s problems with a smile.

“I grew up on a lot of bands that have that quality, of being upbeat and catchy but having darker lyrical content,” says Blasco, who also plays guitar in Vegas fourpiece Half Past. In September, Sunroom released a music video, directed by Christopher Mounts, for first single “The Lows,” which Blasco says he wrote about “medical defeatism” and being a Type 1 diabetic. In the video, the stoic singer mouths the song’s dour lyrics—“The kind of low where I don’t want to get out of bed/The kind of low where I can’t bring myself to wake up”—in front of differently colored backdrops. By the energetic chorus, his friends are pictured dancing, singing and playing air guitar on inflatable instruments.

“Having any chronic illness that is difficult to manage is exhausting, so that’s what it’s about on the surface,” Blasco says. “I wanted the video to be emphasizing that dichotomy of light and dark.”

Sunroom is about to begin work on its debut full-length, and in the meantime the band will release a series of live EPs from its sessions at Digital Insight studios. “We’re doing live pre-production to get an idea of what the songs sound like naturally and how we want to tweak and arrange them for a tracked album, so we’re going to be putting out a handful of those live captures after we’ve mixed and mastered them,” Blasco says. After that, it’s a full-length, and eventually, touring—with which the singer has plenty of experience from Narrowed’s early days. “With this vein of music, touring is kind of an irreplaceable commodity—that’s the way you start to build hype,” Blasco says. “We want to be doing that by early 2020.”

Hear Sunroom on November 8 at Cheba Hut with Arizona’s Twin Ponies and fellow locals Farangs and Homebodys.

Sunroom with Twin Ponies, Farangs, Homebodys. November 8, 7 p.m., free. Cheba Hut, 2550 S. Rainbow Blvd. #14, 702-685-0692.