Kevin Bronson on September 18th, 2014

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As if we don’t have enough mania in Los Angeles, there seem to be two bands operating under the name Maniac in your neighborhood. We’re going to go crazy for one of them: Maniac is singer-bassist Zache Davis, a Seattle transplant and former member of the Girls and the Cute Lepers, who has teamed up with guitarists Justin Mauer (Clorox Girls, L.A. Drugz) and Andrew Zappin and drummer James Carman (Images, L.A. Drugz) to forge an electric punk-meets garage sound. “Live Like Bats,” off the forthcoming album “Demimonde,” offers the kind of melodic buzzsaw that’s just as likely to appeal to every fortysomething at the last Buzzcocks show as it will to every twentysomething at the last Ty Segall show. The album, recorded last fall with Mark Rains at Station House Studios in Echo Park, follows up the equally audacious single “Dim Sum” that came out earlier this year. “Demimonde” is out Nov. 11 on La-Ti-Da Records, another in a long line of reminders who choose your maniacs carefully.

||| Stream: “Live Like Bats” and “Dim Sum”