Kevin Bronson on May 19th, 2016

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“Heavenly Bodies,” the new single from Midnight Faces, is made for stargazing at high speeds. The L.A. trio synthesize the sheen of ’80s new wave and drive of post-punk to forge a crisp but dreamy sound. Originally a collaboration between Matthew Doty (who last decade played in the post-rock band Saxon Shore, for whom Josh Tillman/Father John Misty once drummed) and singer Phil Stancil, the band now includes drummer Paul Doyle as a full-timer. The threesome have completed work at L.A.’s The Ship studio on the third Midnight Faces album and the follow-up to 2014’s “The Fire Is Gone.” “Heavenly Bodies” is the title track, starting at a gallop before achieving liftoff with a whoosh of effects and Stancil’s yearning vocals. The album is due in August, and this one will keep your head in the clouds during their June residency in L.A.

||| Stream: “Heavenly Bodies”

||| Live: Midnight Faces play the Monday residency in June at the Bootleg Theater: June 6 with Crystales, Tetragrammaton; June 13 with Nico Yaryan, People Flavor; June 20 with Castro; and June 27 with the Gloomies, Rosa and Poppet.

||| Previously: “Over Again”