Kevin Bronson on October 24th, 2014

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Long Beach’s Steve Krolikowski has been making music as Repeater for almost a decade, embracing the mostly Anglophile strains of post-punk, new wave and alt-rock. Last year Repeater released an EP of older recordings that Krolikowski said represented a turning of the page, and now Repeater is back, sounding invigorated, with a new lineup and a new album. The self-titled “Repeater” is out Nov. 18, and the first single “Lonely” is a darkly romantic slice of shoegazing that would have been as engaging in the ’90s as it is today. Singer-guitarist Krolikowski is joined in Repeater’s new incarnation by singer-keyboardist Tess Shapiro, who gives the album plenty of boy/girl vocal charm, guitarist Alex Forsythe, bassist Christopher Fudurich and drummer Charlie Woodburn. Fudurich is an ace producer with a deep resumé, and deftly balances “Repeater’s” atmospheric conditions. This one’s for anybody who revisits their old Britpop playlists, and is interested in hearing a band move the dial forward.

||| Stream: “Lonely”