Stream: Broncho, ‘I Know You’

Kevin Bronson on May 25th, 2016

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The old Broncho — the band that sunk its teeth into us with nuggets like “Try Me Out Sometime” (2013) and “Class Historian” (2014) — seems to have gone missing. A search party is currently on the lookout for the quartet on I-40 between their native Oklahoma and Albuquerque, where they were last spotted in their van listening to Jesus and Mary Chain cassettes.

At least, that’s what we imagine while sampling the songs on their third full-length, “Double Vanity.” The quartet — singer-guitarist Ryan Lindsey, guitarist Ben King, bassist Penny Pitchlynn and drummer Nathan Price — have moved on from infectious garage-rock into darker, moodier territory, with fuzz-coated new songs that are heavy on the texture and light on the hooks. The seeds for “Double Vanity” were planted when Lindsey was asked to create music “to set to an early ’80s punk film.” “That’s all I knew about it,” he remembers. “They were looking for songs that touched this era. And songs kept coming to me and turned something on inside of me artistically.”

“Double Vanity,” out June 10 via Dine Alone Records, is the follow-up to Broncho’s “Can’t Get Past the Lips” (independently released in 2011 and then again in 2013) and 2014’s “Just Hip Enough to Be Woman.” It’s different. Hope they don’t have to forfeit their Burgerama merit badge.

||| Stream: “I Know You,” “Fantasy Boys,” “Senora Borealis” and “Speed Demon”