The Steoples is an avant-soul collaboration between Los Angeles beat scene veteran Gabriel Reyes-Whittaker (aka GB) and and co-producer, singer, and songwriter Yeofi Andoh (aka Yeofi, A Race of Angels). The two musicians previously worked together on "Love Is the End," a track off Soundtrack for Sunrise, Reyes-Whittaker's 2004 album as GB. The following decade, they picked up where they left off. After a self-titled Steoples EP in 2012, they recorded the album Six Rocks. Predominantly unorthodox in structure, its 11 tracks drifted from clamping, reverberant beats to weightless ambience, fronted by Andoh's searching, aching vocals. Reyes-Whittaker and Andoh found a natural home at Stones Throw, the label that issued Six Rocks in August 2017. Stones Throw released the broader-scoped second Steoples album, Wide Through the Eyes of No One, in August 2021.