Premiere: Paper Pilots, ‘The Weather’

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Paper Pilots' Justin David Bocchieri
Paper Pilots' Justin David Bocchieri

The long-awaited new single from L.A.’s Paper Pilots possesses the DNA of Britpop finery, the cinematic flourishes of a spy movie theme and an excellent California tan. “The Weather” is the latest from the musical pen of Justin David Bocchieri, who first piloted the band’s cover of the Zombies’ “She’s Not There” for HBO’s “True Blood” in 2012 and followed that with an EP and, last year, the power-pop singles “Arrow” and “Free Ride.”  Although there’s a chill in the song, “The Weather” — like the climate in these parts — is seductive, from its opening swell of keyboards to its zenith in the bridge. Bocchieri plays all the instruments on the song, which was was produced by Grammy-nominated engineer Luke Tozour (Katy Perry, Adam Lambert, Jamie Cullum) and mixed by a Grammy winner, Paul Hicks. “The chase for endless sun / keeps me on the run,” Bocchieri sings. So does the search for pop songs like this.

||| Stream: “The Weather”

||| Live: Paper Pilots headline the Echo on Nov. 15.

||| Previously: “Lacksadaisical,” “Catch the Lamplight Low”