Stream: Avid Dancer, ‘All Your Words Are Gone’

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aviddancer-cararobbinsThe bulletin here is that the debut album from Avid Dancer, “1st Bath,” will be out April 14. Which is welcome news, whether you knew songwriter Jacob Dillan Summers when he was paying his dues on the L.A. scene, or whether you heard him when he emerged from Raymond Richards’ studio in early 2012 with freshly minted songs, or whether you just met him when he pleaded “Stop Playing With My Heart” in late 2013. A former drummer in the United States Marine Drum & Bugle Corps who was reared in a fundamentalist Christian household (one anecdote is that when he first heard the Kinks, he thought they were a new band), Summers displays a facile touch for guitar pop rooted in the ’60s and ’70s. There’s some psychedelic jangle in “1st Bath’s” water, and some edgy ’90s rave-ups too, but the common threads are delectable melodies and Summers’ cherubic, lovelorn voice — the latter naked and vulnerable on the sweetly shuffling new song “All Your Words Are Gone.” “Just be who you are,” he sings. Such a simple notion, perfectly articulated.

||| Stream: “All Your Words Are Gone”

||| Live: Avid Dancer does the Monday night residency in February at the Echo.

Photo by Cara Robbins