Stream: Superhumanoids, ‘Anxious in Venice’

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Superhumanoids

L.A. electro-pop trio Superhumanoids usher in their second act by titling their sophomore album this way: “Do You Feel OK?” If you don’t take the question for granted, the answer, quite possibly, is no, or at least complicated. And it’s one that the band — Sarah Chernoff, Cameron Parkins and Max St. John — probably asked of themselves many times since their full-length debut “Exhibitionists” came out in 2013. That album’s hazy romanticism lacked the tension of the EPs and singles that preceded it, but now it sounds like Superhumanoids have recalibrated. At least, there’s nothing hazy about Superhumanoids’ new single “Anxious in Venice.” Here, Chernoff’s breathy vocals and cries are counterposed against nervous electronic rhythms and menacing synths and effects — if the trio was going for a four-minute anxiety attack, they nailed it. St. John, who mans the synths, explains the band’s tack in making the album: “In the middle of recording, we went on tour with Erasure and realized that the songs we’d written weren’t achieving the energetic atmosphere we hoped for. When we got home … we wrote additional songs, we sped up tempos and made changes to the production that we felt were more exciting.” So while we’re feeling OK about this new single, the rest of the answer will come Sept. 11, when “Do You Feel OK?” is released via Innovative Leisure.

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||| Previously: “So Strange,” “Bad Weather,” Live at the Troubadour, “Too Young for Love”