Premiere: Castro, ‘Peppermint Days’

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Los Angeles quartet Castro
Los Angeles quartet Castro

Young L.A. quartet Castro makes music that unapologetically references the dark romanticism of the U.K. post-punk and new wave bands of the 1980s. They debuted last summer with an EP produced by Sean Guerin (De Lux), and now Castro — singer-guitarists Vincent Venturella and Jack Guimon, bassist Eric Hehr and drummer Brendan McCusker — return with a digital single early next month. “Peppermint Days” (with the B-side “Tricks” to follow), was engineered and produced by McCusker, and the song’s reverberated, angular guitars and chugging bass serve the single’s overriding restlessness. Fans of artists like the Psychedelic Furs will find that Castro’s new music fits like that old pair of black jeans.

||| Live: Castro plays Ed Cid on Aug. 7 and opens for Springtime Carnivore at the Bootleg Theater on Sept. 17.

||| Stream: “Peppermint Days”

||| Previously: “Why Don’t Find Out?”