Kevin Bronson on January 29th, 2015

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On their debut album last year, L.A. duo Howls proved moody and brooding. On the follow-up single “White Noise” (out next week via Buddyhead), co-conspirators Annalee Fery and Christian Stone move from the dreamy and dark to the brighter lights of the disco. The pulsating single was produced by Jon Siebels, the Eve 6 guitarist who was once a bandmate of Fery and Stone in Monsters Are Waiting. The song, says Fery, was “a staple of our live show as a guitar-based thing. We tried recording it this way but we weren’t happy with the results.” Enter Siebels. “”He stripped away all the “traditional” instrumentation and really focused on synths and programmed drums instead,” she says. “Suddenly the song made sense.”

||| Stream: “White Noise”

||| Previously: “Fool,” “Sixteen”

Photo by J. Viles