Premiere: Flora & Fauna, ‘Secret Preference’

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If the nimble guitar work doesn’t get you, the falsetto will. And if those don’t work, give in to the hook, and the beats. Yes, they’re all in four minutes’ work for Flora & Fauna, the new L.A. quartet whose early songs seem equally beholden to post-punk and soul-pop. The foursome of Matt Bernstein, Adam Gunther, Casey Baird and Charlie Ellis – SoCal natives who honed their chops at Connecticut’s Wesleyan University* – can swing from droll to whimsical in the turn of a phrase. Outside of their new song “Secret Preference” (an ideal mate for Papa’s “I Am the Lion King”), Flora & Fauna have a Strokesy seen-it-all comportment, and who knows, maybe they have. After all, haven’t you as well?

||| Download: “Secret Preference”

||| Also: Visit Flora & Fauna on Bandcamp to download “White Nights” and “Up All Night.”

||| Live: Flora & Fauna play Dec. 21 at the Bootleg Theater along with Harriet and Tracy Shedd.

* Corrected, thanks