Kevin Bronson on June 24th, 2015

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Emily Gold says the pop confessionals on her forthcoming debut album “Recluse” aren’t just love, lust or heartbreak songs but about “the in-between,” and that often-agonizing fluidity of emotions plays out in her new single “Love Moves.” Amid lush instrumentation and finger-snaps, and punctuated by a tasty guitar solo from David Burris, the British-born, California-bred singer-songwriter plays the sad, steely-eyed realist, lamenting that “love just made us weaker and weaker.” The single is the follow-up to last fall’s bitter pill “Cyanide Lollipop,” which found the third-generation songstress — she’s the daughter of songwriter Andrew Gold (“Thank You for Being a Friend,” “Lonely Boy”) and the granddaughter of Academy Award-winning composer Ernest Gold and singer Marni Nixon, the movie voice of Natalie Wood, Deborah Kerr and Audrey Hepburn — emerging from her own shell as a session player. She admits to being a recluse during the making of “Recluse,” which is “inspired by feelings of disillusionment with life and love in Los Angeles and feeling alienated by the various scenes. I can be a bit of a loner, mostly by my own kind of self-deprecating, overly-active thought process.” The first release since Gold’s “Wrap You in Dreams” EP in 2013, “Recluse” (out July 21) was co-produced by Burris, with contributions from drummer Sean Draper, bassist Itai Shapira (Rhye) and keyboardist Adam Berg (the Decoders).

||| Stream: “Love Moves”

||| Previously: “Cyanide Lollipop,” “Wrap You in Dreams”