Kevin Bronson on October 28th, 2011

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Leonard Jackson last crossed our radar in 2008 as singer-guitarist for the Ethan Allen-produced, Mark Needham-mixed, Killers-influenced rock quartet the Forward. Directions changed, and Jackson eventually found himself plying his songwriting skills composing for film and TV. Now Imperial Mammoth – his new project with singer-harpist-keyboardist (and his bride-to-be) Laura Jane Scott – has arrived with a roar. The duo have landed a song on the soundtrack for the new “Twilight” movie, and their debut EP “Where Satellites Fall” came out this week. Theirs is sweetly affecting boy/girl pop, conceived in quiet times at home while Scott was recuperating from knee surgery. “We’d just lay in bed for hours at a time, playing guitar and harmonizing,” Jackson says, “and we strive to keep things in the vein of that original simplicity.” Their song “Requiem on Water” made the soundtrack for “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1” (due out Nov. 8) as kind of a “shot-in-the-dark kind of thing,” Jackson says. And their EP is nothing if not further proof that well-done boy/girl pop – unlike the Pleistocene-era beasts from which the duo draws its name – will never be extinct.

||| Download: “Eyes”

||| Also: Visit Imperial Mammoth’s website to get a download of “All the Good Things”