Quali was started in 2013 by Isaiah Nery in Los Angeles. He spent the next 2 years writing and recording all of the instruments for their debut release, The Familiar and the Other (2015). After moving to San Diego, Nery recruited friends to help with live performances. In 2017, the band put out their second album, Awaken The Quietus. Since then, Quali has played with bands like Duster, A Place to Bury Strangers, Horse Jumper of Love, Wild Honey, Mint Field, Memory Leak and many more. With loud, fuzzed-out wall of sound guitars, ethereal, ambient and spaced out dynamics held together with laggy pocket grooves, Quali creates a sound familiar, inspired by the pioneers of shoegaze and post-rock, but is uniquely its own.

Quali released their latest full length album, When The Dark Presses, in July 2022.