Kevin Bronson on August 12th, 2015

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If the single they released in March didn’t give you an inkling, L.A.’s Big Harp is taking another left turn for their third album. After a folky debut in 2011 for Saddle Creek and a bluesy follow-up in 2013, the husband/wife tandem of Chris Senseney and Stefanie Drootin-Senseney — now with drummer Daniel Ocanto — have made an album maybe best described as what-the-fuzz-pop. “Waveless” is being released Friday via the small cassette/digital label Majestic Litter and features the single “Golden Age,” which, Stefanie says, is “about how it’s tempting to idolize the past or the future, because it’s easy to imagine away all the rough, messy edges. It’s also about sick riffs.” (Which causes me to wonder whether we are living in the golden age of anything right now. Are we? Please comment with, “Yes, you silly blogger, we’re living in the golden age of ________.”) Anyway, Mr. Senseney goes on to explain that some songs were recorded with John Congleton, some with Pierre De Reeder and that “the music is fuzzy and poppy and kind of thrashy and Stef and I sing together a ton. … We get that people who like the first two [albums] might not love it (they would be wrong, though). The records don’t really have anything to do with each other, except that the same people made them.”

||| Stream: “Golden Age”

||| Live: Big Harp will be touring with the Good Life (of which Stefanie is also a member), including dates Nov. 18 at the Troubadour and Nov. 19 at the Constellation Room.

||| Previously: “It’s a Shame”