Kevin Bronson on September 28th, 2015

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Songwriters Nick Flessa and Lucy LaForge met as extras on a music video shoot last summer in Silver Lake. Flessa is the singer-songwriter at the helm of L.A.-based country outfit Wash; LaForge is the ukulele-wielding singer at the front of folk-pop ensemble Lucy & La Mer. Both their bands occupy slightly different orbits in the Americana galaxy, but the L.A.-based duo share a sharp lyrical sensibility, Flessa’s wry and world-weary, LaForge’s bold and innocent. They’ve been collaborating since they met, and Flessa rightly likens their new song “There Is Mercy In This Night” to the duets of Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra. Wash’s Adam Snider plays lead guitar here, and Michael Abitz drums, as, almost trance-like, the duo shares a reverie about all the possibilities that arise after sundown.

||| Stream: “There Is Mercy in This Night”