Kevin Bronson on November 1st, 2013

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Synth-pop quartet Lovelife makes the kind of vacant New Wave that sent thousands of music fans scurrying back the guitar rock in the 1980s. Which is strange, because not terribly long ago three-quarters of the band – Lee Newell, Frank Colucci and Sam Jackson – were in the hyped U.K. guitar band Brother (which then became Viva Brother). Viva Brother didn’t live long; by the middle of last year, they’d broken up and Ally Young of Brighton electro band Mirrors had come aboard to help take the lads into the synth tsunami. After departing London for Brooklyn, the quartet has landed in Los Angeles. Lovelife’s third EP “Stateless” came out in early October, with Newell’s blaring vocals convincingly new(er) romantic and all bleeps and whirrs in their proper places. Maybe there’s room in your electro-pop library for yet another volume?

|||Stream: “Dying to Start Again” and “Exhaler”

||| Live: Lovelife shares the Monday night residency with Wunder Wunder in November at the Bootleg Bar.