Premiere: Kyle Krone, ‘For Those Who Think Young’

Kevin Bronson on March 22nd, 2011

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Kyle Krone had a pretty good run as frontman of the Shys, who were signed young to Sire Records, released two albums and two EPs and earned respect for transforming their bluesy classic rock into a spectacle live. Striking out on his own, though, Krone felt drawn to his original love – the electro-driven British rock of the 1980s.

“You get into a band with good friends who are into blues rock and Americana, and all the stuff that influenced you at the beginning gets filtered through your bandmates,” Krone says. “It was good, but it never ended up sounding like something I envisioned.”

Krone’s forthcoming solo album “For Those Who Think Young” provides a more accurate document of the 27-year-old Orange County native: oozing melodies over an electronic backdrop that could have sprung from the gear of New Order, Depeche Mode or Joy Division. The first single “Hiding in Plain Sight” was used in a JCrew fashion promo, and the second, “1963,” went to iTunes early this month.

“Do you ever have that moment when you can’t find the right record – when you know it exists but you just can’t find the right vibe?” Krone says of the album, recorded with producer Mark Rains. “You want to be able to press pause on life and listen. If I can’t find it, I want to write it. So I went for that and tried to bottle it. I wanted it to be 100% me.

“A lot of it is just romance and idealism – it’s so difficult to have the life you want, but with music you can approximate the feeling. I think that’s what people do with any art.”

It sounds funny coming from a guy all of 27, but Krone says that in the making of “For Those Who Think Young” he reflected on “the youthful exuberance that attracted me to music in the first place.

“You want to feel the same way you felt when you were 22, when you had that fearless disposition.”

Krone says an exact release date for the album has not yet been decided, but he expects to being playing live in support of the album by early summer.

||| Also: Stream the single “1963”