Kevin Bronson on November 6th, 2009

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In a way, the Meeting Places’ name is perfect. Like the best of their shoegazing forebears, the L.A. quartet’s music glistens in the place where fuzz-filled soundscapes meet memorable melodies. The quartet of Scott McDonald, Chase Harris, Dean Yoshihara and Arthur Chan has been an on-again, off-again proposition since early in the decade, taking a break after their promising 2006 album, “Numbered Days,” but recently scored some song placements on “Gossip Girl” and set to work on new material. The surging “Millions” marries emotional atmospherics to layered swell of melody in a way that would make fans of the likes of Chapterhouse and Slowdive woozy with bliss.

||| Download: “Millions”

||| Live: The Meeting Places perform Saturday at Club Violaine at Roberto’s (686 Spring St., downtown) and Dec. 3 at the Prospector in Long Beach.