Download: Chasing Kings, ‘Do It to Myself’

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Chasing Kings’ debut album “Nice Guys” has been simmering on the stove for about a year now, and the big news today is that it will finally be released Oct. 2. It’s an adrenaline-charged stew of pop hooks, shifting tempos and subversive humor from a band that’s paid its dues in Los Angeles and documented some of those experiences in quite sophisticated fashion. Matt Schwartz, Mike Goldman and Nick Sandler (Drew Beck left the band last spring) have eschewed flavor-of-the-moment stylings ever since their 2009 EP “The Current State of Our Future.” It will be welcome, come October, when the current state of “Nice Guys” is: in heavy rotation.

||| Download: “Do It to Myself”

||| Previously: “Nice Guys” and “Maybe It’s the Distance”