Kevin Bronson on July 27th, 2018

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Hamish Anderson’s blues-rock finery was stitched together on two continents, his native Australia and his current station in Los Angeles, where he first alighted several years ago to attend music school. He calls himself a disciple of the three Kings (Albert, BB and Freddie) and the raft of rootsy artists who followed. And Anderson’s 2016 full-length — with the singles “Trouble,” “No Good” and “U” — was produced by Grammy winner Jim Scott (Tom Petty, the Tedeschi Trucks Band, Ryan Bingham, Wilco, Grace Potter, et al) and is one of those albums that feels so organic it should be sold at Whole Foods.

Anderson’s new single, “No Good,” is a riffy romp “about finally realizing when a situation that you’re in is actually doing you more harm than good — and deciding to leave it behind,” he told Relix, where the song premiered. The players included keyboardist Jerry Borgé (Jonathan Wilson), drummer Johnny Radelat (Gary Clark Jr) and bassist Chris Bruce (Meshell Ndegeocello). Anderson was reared on his father’s collection of classic rock records, and somewhere across the Pacific Ocean there’s a whole shelf of vinyl, smiling.

||| Stream: “No Good”

||| Also: Watch the video for “U”

||| Live: Hamish Anderson performs Saturday at Chinatown Summer Nights. He celebrates the release of his single on Tuesday night with a show at Madame Siam in Hollywood.