Kevin Bronson on August 11th, 2014

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Few boy/girl duos have negotiated the sometimes vast chasm between boy and girl as Annalee Fery and Christian Stone have on their self-titled debut album as Howls. On the album, which came out in May, the longtime collaborators – once of the Lonely Trees, and separately of Monsters Are Waiting and Campfire Girls, respectively – fashion brooding pop that alternately speaks to both the intimacy and remoteness of relationships, and all the danger that lies in between. The album is actually the culmination of four years of writing, demoing and recording, yielding meticulous arrangements and shape-shifting use of noise and synths. Which brings us to the video for the single, “Fool,” which is as fraught with peril as it is dripping with sexy. Director Joseph Viles follows Fery and Stone in and out of the shadows, literally and figuratively, where, as the duo sings, “none of this can be undone.”

||| Previously: “Sixteen”

||| Live: Howls perform at 6 p.m. Saturday in the Taix Champagne Room on the Buzz Bands LA stage as part of Echo Park Rising.