Kevin Bronson on April 29th, 2017

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Among the real nocturnal activities that constitute Night Things are dreams — and they are both the genesis and the continuing obsession of the Zach Shields and Maize LaRue. The L.A. duo, who debuted their first song “Cost of the Summer” earlier this month via a dream-sequence video choreographed by Ryan Heffington (who’s worked with Sia, among others), first met in 2008. Shields was playing in Ryan Gosling’s band Dead Man’s Bones, which collaborated with the Silverlake Conservatory of Music Children’s Choir, of which LaRue was a member. Fast forward several years, and the pair discovered they were having parallel dreams. They began writing together. Besides the video and the single, a brooding slice of dark New Wave, Night Things have also established the Office of Night Things, with a phone number (1-800-390-0934) and an invitation for people to call and leave a voicemail of their dreams. (After recording our latest “Field of Dreams”-meets-Busby Berkeley in a rainstorm hallucination, we have set off in search of the phone booth in Chinatown where supposedly you can listen to dreams on the spot.) A full-length album is in the works.

||| Watch: The video for “Cost of the Summer”

||| Also: Stream the song