Kevin Bronson on July 17th, 2015

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It’s hard to ignore Cold War Kids this past year, what with solo or side projects springing up like bunnies [see next post], the L.A. quintet touring like dervishes and our encountering their latest single “First” on the radio in sometimes unexpected places. Today the band (original members Nathan Willett and Matt Maust, along with Dann Gallucci, Joe Plummer and Matthew Schwartz) released a digital EP titled “Five Quick Cuts.” It’s the follow-up to “Hold My Home,” the Kids’ fifth full-length (released last fall), and it leads with a song originally written for that album, “One Song at a Time.” Sean Flynn’s video for the tune certainly abides the EP’s “quick cuts” theme, and Willett told Huffington Post, where the video premiered, that the fast-paced rocker is about his tendency to overthink things. The video, meanwhile, finds Willett in a lot of places familiar to Angelenos.

||| Live: Cold War Kids, along with Other Lives, perform at the free-with-RSVP “Sound in Focus” series at the Annenberg Space for Photography on Aug. 15.

||| Watch: The video for “One Song at a Time”

||| Previously: Live at the Regent Theater, “All This Could Be Yours,” “Pine St.,” “Water & Power,” “Loner Phase,” “Miracle Mile,” live at the Bootleg, “Minimum Day,” “Skip the Charades,” “Mine Is Yours”

Photo by Michelle Mosqueda