Kevin Bronson on September 23rd, 2016

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In between gigs playing with other artists, L.A. psych-pop fun bunch Detangler have been working on a full-length album with Chris Schlarb, a Long Beach producer with a long list of credits. The album, “Cried & Died,” will be out Nov. 18, and the quartet is introducing the light-hearted but seriously themed first single “Trouble” by way of a short caper film. It’s directed by Mark Thornton and features Davin Givhan, the band’s frontman, as the bad guy (aren’t they always?) and Bryan Kertenian, Detangler’s drummer, as the good guy (aren’t they always?). Givhan runs afoul of two bikers (Detangler bassist Noah Harmon and Michael Pedicone), and a chase scene ensues. Two valuable life lessons here: Drugs are bad (the song is about a guy trying to wrest a friend from the throes); and black cats aren’t always unlucky. It’s a pretty, and pretty serious, song given a light treatment in the video. Purr.

||| Watch: The video for “Trouble”

||| Previously: “We’re Defeated,” “On the Edge”