Kevin Bronson on May 25th, 2018

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“I Love You” is the introductory missive to Los Angeles quartet Laureline, who enter the heavily populated world of well-coiffed electro-pop with tender boy/girl vocals and willowy production. The band — Chris Rasmussen, Ciera Bardowell, Marian Nutley and Nico Hernandez, who embarked on the band while they were still attending college (they’re products of Azusa Pacific and Biola universities) — spent much of last year honing their batch of songs before kicking off 2018 with a residency at the Wayfarer.

Of their first single, Laureline told Nest HQ, where the song premiered: “Despite its pop exterior, ‘I Love You’ remains one of the more contemplative songs we’ve written. I wanted to write an honest love song and this was all I could muster up at the time. To me, there’s a real sadness to the chorus ‘I’ve been thinking about you lately’ as it mourns the chance of anything more than just a thought. The song also wrestles with the dichotomy between knowing and not knowing, love and loss, belief and unbelief: a thesis statement for Laureline’s music. We started about a year ago as a project to work out ideas both creatively and intellectually. We want to create a space where we can feel everything, whether its dancing on stage or crying; a place where we can be present with each other and create a genuine experience together. And we want to invite as many people into that space as possible.”

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