Kevin Bronson on February 16th, 2018

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On what have become annual EP releases, L.A. trio RÓSA have established themselves as some of the coolest of the newest New Romantics. Their latest four-song offering, “The Taste of Another,” comes out next Friday. Moody synths meet brooding vocals to fashion the most heartbreaking kind of intimacy — the closeness you can only imagine from far across the dimly lit dancefloor.

The new single “Nightmare” frets over “the anxiety of entering a space that carried meaning for you during some previous time,” singer Will Winters explains. “It’s about the weight of loss that comes crashing down on you when something familiar, something that connects your present experience to your past, enters your field of perception. It’s a very terrifying place to be. For me, it was that feeling I had when I was walking in the downtown area of my college town when I thought I saw an ex at a place where we once spent time, only to realize moments later that she had moved to New York months ago.”

Back in the day, somebody we know used to say: At least I’ve got this black Members Only jacket to keep me warm.

||| Stream: “Nightmare”

||| Also: Stream “Stranger”

||| Live: RÓSA celebrate their EP release with a show Feb. 23 at the Satellite, with Photographic Memory, Laureline and Drinker. Tickets.

||| Previously: “Don’t Say”