Kevin Bronson on December 7th, 2009

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[One in a series on notable new music from SoCal artists …]

Long Beach quartet Parade of Lights – first heard here back in April – has released its debut EP, full of gorgeously crafted anthems that float somewhere between the youthful, earnest pop of artists such as Jack’s Mannequin and the expansive, Anglophile-leaning romanticism of Low Vs Diamond. Suckers for melody will fall for Ryan Daly’s sweet-but-not-saccharine melody lines and his guitar interplay with keyboardist Matt Frey. Get your radios ready.

||| Download: “First Light” (e-mail required)

||| Live: Parade of Lights celebrates its EP release with a show Tuesday at Spaceland featuring Army Navy, Evan Voytas and White Arrows.