Stream: Night Terrors of 1927, ‘When You Were Mine’ (feat. Tegan and Sara)

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Night Terrors of 1927 emerged last year with an EP of emo-gone-electro (not a pejorative here) titled “Guilty Pleas” that was worthy of the resumés of the principal songwriters, Jarrod Gorbel (The Honorary Title) and Blake Sennett (Rilo Kiley, the Elected). With their dramatic flair for composition and meatier-than-most lyrical offerings, you wondered what Night Terrors wanted to be when they grew up. With this week’s release of their new “Anything to Anyone EP,” their aspirations are no clearer, except for the painfully obvious commercial ones. New single “When You Were” is a button-pusher that features Tegan and Sara, and other songs like “Always Be One” find NTO1927 trying to out-kill the Killers. Outsized choruses, sticky melodies, overprocessed vocals, all done to the highest professional specifications, and coming soon to an FM station near you. Interestingly, the physical copy of the EP boasts a version of “Shine” as a perfectly good piano ballad. Compare and contrast.

||| Stream: “When You Were Mine”

||| Live: Night Terrors of 1927 open for Capital Cities on Nov. 20 and 21 at the Fonda Theatre.

||| Previously: “Always Take You Back,” “Dust and Bones” video, “Dust and Bones,” “Watch the World Go Dark”