Kevin Bronson on August 13th, 2014

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“Colors of the Cold,” the first song on dream-weaver Rocco DeLuca’s new album, somehow runs two temperatures at the same time, at once suggesting icy and distant while glowing with the warm ambiance concocted by producer Daniel Lanois. The song is but one example of the wizardry on the songwriter’s “Rocco DeLuca,” which comes out next week via 429 Records. The follow-up to 2011’s “Drugs ’N’ Hymns” possesses a sort of next-level mysticism that makes you wonder what’s in the water in DeLuca’s Silver Lake neighborhood; his fragile-voiced poesy has never been more vivid, and between his distinctive National guitar’s own voice and the Grammy-winning producer’s painterly feel for atmosphere,  you feel as if you’re bearing witness to something special. The album came out of recordings made at the (locally legendary) “Effie House,”  with a cast of friends including singer-guitarist Christian Letts, bassists Seth-Ford Young and Guy Seyffert, violinist Odessa Jorgensen, vocalist SoKo and drummers Oliver Charles, Josh Collazo and Jonathan Wright. Absolutely striking.

||| Stream: “Colors of the Cold”

||| Live: Rocco DeLuca performs Sept. 25 at the Troubadour.