Kevin Bronson on July 15th, 2011

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Xander Singh vowed last November that Pepper Rabbit, his collaboration with Luc Laurent, was ready to make a second album, and only weeks after “Beauregard,” their debut for Kanine Records, was released. Promise kept. Pepper Rabbit’s “Red Velvet Snow Ball” will be out Aug. 9 on Kanine, and the first single, “Murder Room,” reveals Singh at the front of “the most straightforward pop song I’ve ever written,” he says. While it’s not likely Singh is ready to be done with being a one-man chamber-pop orchestra, “Murder Room” gets to the tasty bits quickly. And for a band releasing music as if it’s scared people will forget them (just last month, Pepper Rabbit released its “Rose Mary Stretch” EP for free), it’s not a bad tack.

||| Download: “Murder Room” (via Stereogum)

||| Also: Get the “Rose Mary Stretch” EP via Consequence of Sound.

||| Previously: “Harvest Moon” video; “Older Brother” from last August; and, from 2009, “Red Wine.”

||| Live: Pepper Rabbit, joined by Braids, plays Sept. 29 at the Echo.