Stream: The Happy Hollows, ‘Astrid’

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Since the Happy Hollows released their sophomore album “Amethyst” in 2013, the L.A. trio has quietly been working on a follow-up. The first song “Astrid” continues the trio’s path of interlacing guitars and synths in their agit-pop, with frontwoman Sarah Negahdari’s agile vocals slip-sliding all over the scale. The album found the trio — Negahdari, Charlie Mahoney and Matt Fry — working in the studio with Lewis Pesacov (the Fool’s Gold guitarist whose credits include Best Coast, FIDLAR, Line & Circle and Incan Abraham, among others); it was mixed in London by Gareth Jones (Grizzly Bear, Interpol, Depeche Mode). The new song premiered in the U.K. in advance of the trio’s May tour there. No info yet on the album’s release date, but of “Astrid,” Negahdari told Little Indie Blogs, “The song captures the longing for a simple time when human agency and the movements of heavenly objects were believed to be one and the same.”

||| Stream: “Astrid”

||| Previously: “Amethyst” album release show, “Galaxies,” “Endless”

Photo by Eric Kelly