Stream: Forebear, ‘People’s Champ’
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Last November the L.A. quartet Forebear moved on from their origins as Wise Cub and released a striking four-song EP notable for its intricate melodies, minimal arrangements wedding guitar, keys and strings and elegant lyrical imagery. They return this week with the new single “People’s Champ,” an emotional affirmation that finds Scott Goldbaum’s youthful vocals, here switching between effects, pining above Molly Rogers’ sawed viola. It has a filmic quality without a lot of gloss; owing to their exacting compositons, Forebear continues to make a lot out of little. The band — Goldbaum, Rogers, Mike Musselman and Nick Chamian — have been working with producer Scott Gordon on a new EP titled “Cody.”
||| Stream: “People’s Champ”
||| Live: Forebear performs Saturday at Chinatown Summer Nights.
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