Kevin Bronson on June 4th, 2013

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[Buzz Bands LA today welcomes a new contributing writer, Dan Frazier, whom many in L.A. might know as the man behind Free Bike Valet.]

Venice Beach’s Mind the Gap have always been in a limbo between pop rock and electro funk, but their upcoming EP “Youth” doesn’t yield its dance-floor intentions with the singles “Find My Way” and the new “Falling For You.” The latter is a smoother groove via Greg Cahn’s soaring falsetto and Ruwanga Samath’s reliable beat production. While it may never peak out over the top, it carries a consistent genuine jive. The music video was directed by James “Gorillaflix” Curtis at the historic Baltimore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles and tells a dark tale of heartbroken desperation between two lovers (actors Jeremy Lawson and Edy Ganem) filled with fuzzy flashbacks, creepy room service and hidden goodbye letters. The band manages to make random cameos as hotel staff, a citizen bystander and a policeman, but what’s most notable is that no stuntman were used for the pinnacle scene on top of the 12-story building.

– Dan Frazier

||| Download: “Falling for You” (email required)

||| Live: Mind the Gap plays Wednesday at the Satellite.

||| Previously: “Find My Way”