Kevin Bronson on January 27th, 2014

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The best garage-rock doesn’t try to be garage-rock at all, of course. The songs just pour out of the vein that way, blood red and unbeholden to fussy production. Jesus Sons are like that – the L.A. quintet’s self-titled album, out Tuesday on Mock Records, sounds so real they could be specters from 1968 handing you slabs of slightly used vinyl. Theirs is a sound rooted in the blues; any number of wiry Stones’ classics comes to mind, and other ’50s revivalists of that era. The band began in San Francisco as a collaboration between Brandon Wurtz and Shannon Dean, who brought Chance Welton, Bert Hoover and Erik Lake on board after they moved to L.A. The single “Who’s Around” is only a tick over 2 minutes, but sounds like it’s been around forever.

||| Stream: “Who’s Around”

||| Live: Jesus Sons celebrate their album release by playing Permanent Records on Saturday; they’re back Feb. 19 for a date at Harvard & Stone.

||| Previously: “I Wanna Be Your Man,” live in Chinatown