Kevin Bronson on January 31st, 2018

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Dakota Blue’s loner pop casts alternately wry and earnest eyes at the tightrope act of living in Los Angeles. A visual artist/illustrator, author of three zines and a multi-instrumentalist who also plays in the band Buckaroo, he works out of his bedroom in Century City, viewing the L.A. life from an outsider’s perspective. Last year the L.A. native released an EP titled “Rodeo Knife” — picture “a cowboy brandishing a knife on Rodeo Drive,” he says — and this week comes the first taste of the full-length, “Plaza to Plaza,” he plans to release later this year. “White Nylon” is steeped in noirish cool. “An indie rock anthem for the deranged, a paranoid soundtrack for the getaway car,” Blue says. And, we might add: The perpetrators have succeeded in losing themselves in the crowd, leaving no fingerprints.

||| Stream: “White Nylon”