Video premiere: Lo Brite, ‘Sunset’

0
Lo Brite
Lo Brite

Lois Mathilda Atkins has velvety voice of someone who was brought up around gospel music — which she was, back home in Anderson, Ind. — and the savvy of someone who learned how all that emoting served other themes in the soul music of the 1960s and ’70s and the neo-soul that followed. Working as Lo Brite, she released her debut EP last month, four songs written on a Casio in a cottage in Los Feliz. She does her best come-hither on the lead track “Sunset,” suggesting “let’s take off some clothes / under a sea of scattered orange” while that voice is wrapped in warm keyboards. The song recalls a more romance-obsessed HAIM, and there is a roundabout connection; the EP was produced by Tim V. Hutton at the Canyon Hut studio he co-owns with his brother Dash, the HAIM drummer. The equally warm video for “Sunset,” while maybe not quite enough to stop traffic on the 405 (which we assume is the locale), is plenty enough to slow it down. If those commuters could only hear her sing, “We need a night / ’cause once won’t be enough.”

||| Watch: The video for “Sunset”

||| Live: Lo Brite celebrates her EP release with a show Saturday at Bar Lubitsch.