Kevin Bronson on June 15th, 2015

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Danish-American dream-pop duo Gliss are returning June 26 with their fifth album, “Pale Reflections,” and they are sounding (and looking) as icy-cool as ever. Having last month celebrated a decade as a band with the re-release of their 2005 debut “Kick in Your Heart,” the twosome of Victoria Cecilia and Martin Klingman split time between Berlin and L.A. in make the new album, which they say “reflects the creative underbelly of both cities.” Since those early years (and since the 2013 departure of David Reiss), the band has inched away from guitar-obsessed shoegazing, but the new song “Come Back” — while still reflecting the balance between electronic beats and the pedal-affected wall of sound present on their 2013 album “Langsom Dans” — boasts the kind of riff that made Billy Corgan fall in love with Gliss (and take them on tour) way back when. It’s dirty, it’s pretty, and as director Sam Coleman’s black-and-white video treatment suggests, it’s imbued with the deep sense of longing its title suggests.

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