Stream: Western Scene, ‘Strange But True’

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Western Scene (Photo by Irina Garaiacui)
Western Scene (Photo by Irina Garaiacui)

L.A. indie-rockers Western Scene — the vehicle for the songs of San Diego native Tom Pritchard — trade in the kind of reflective, affecting euphoria you might have heard in the middle of last decade. “Strange But True,” just the band’s second single in the past three-plus years, recalls the briskest and brightest bits from artists bands like Rogue Wave, the Shins and the Helio Sequence. “I wanted to convey the idea of escaping into the unknown and what kind of things will happen when you are truly on your own,” Pritchard told The 405, where the song premiered. “Eventually things change and you run towards it. It may have been my homage to ‘A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall.’” Like Western Scene’s previous work, “Strange But True,” the band’s first for Grand Jury Music, was produced by Hugo Nicolson. Pritchard and bandmates Wyatt Glodell, Paul Hiller, Joe Hardesty and Kurt Allen are working toward releasing a full-length this year.

||| Stream: “Strange But True”

||| Previously: “Going Back,” “See What You Want To”