Kevin Bronson on May 3rd, 2017

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Some five-plus years ago, after a period of going by the name Tigers Can Bite You, L.A. trio Wilding released an EP (all but expunged from the internet). And many years before that, frontman Dave Woody helmed the Modesto band Fiver, whose debut was produced by Jason Lytle of Grandaddy and, along with the likes of Grandaddy, Sparklehorse and Earlimart, who released music on the fine Devil in the Woods label.

Who knows what transpired between 2011 and now, but Wilding — Woody, Dave Bowman and Andrew Platts — have returned with what they are calling their “debut” EP, “Secular Music.” Released last week, it boasts five tracks (including one from that 2011 release) of agitated popgazing serving as the tightrope for Woody’s aerial vocals, a melodic cocoon of fuzzy bliss. The video for “Hot Prowl” posits itself as a vintage anti-drug clip, but with a groove like this song’s, who needs dope?

||| Watch: The video for “Hot Prowl”

||| Also: Stream: “Hot Prowl” and “Ghost Deer”