Kevin Bronson on August 11th, 2016

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Modern rock/alt-pop heroes Remy Zero went mostly silent in 2003 after a three-album run, although their yearning melodicism lived on through most of the decade, owing to the TV series “Smallville” adopting “Save Me” as its theme. Cheshires are a new trio featuring three former Remy Zero players, including Mr. Zero (born Shelby Tate) himself. Not surprisingly, they sound like Remy Zero — witness the exuberant dynamics of the first single “Love this Feelin'” — and it should be noted (with a thumbs-up) that principals Tate, singer-songwriter Louis Schefano (the band’s original drummer when they formed in Alabama in 1990) and multi-instrumentalist Leslie Van Trease chose to respect the rest of the original members and the original band name by calling this project Cheshires. Anyway, the trio’s debut album, a self-titled affair, will be out Sept. 16. Nine of its dozen tracks were penned by Tate, three by Schefano (including one from the long-ago Remy Zero archives). The video, the work of Sweatyfish, stitches together found footage with clips of the band in a very old-MTV kind of way. File under: Effortlessly catchy.

||| Watch: The video for “Love This Feelin'”