Stream: POWERS, ‘Sunshine’

Kevin Bronson on June 28th, 2016

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In the grand lineage of pop songs with cool flute parts — as well as the history of tunes that address that ever-pressing matter of this region’s weather — POWERS’ new single “Sunshine” seems the disco-addled grandchild of Albert Hammond’s 44-year-old “It Never Rains in Southern California.” It’s the first song from the duo of Mike Del Rio and Crista Ru since last fall’s “Legendary” EP, and it will appear on their full-length debut for Universal Republic Records due later this year. Del Rio and Ru worked with producers such as Mark Rankin (Adele, Florence + the Machine, Queens of the Stone Age) and Rich Costey (Foster the People, Muse, Santigold) on the album, and, they told Consequence of Sound (where the song premiered), “For this album we’ve been using new sounds to pursue a feeling of nostalgia.” Those beats aren’t ’70s, but otherwise, mission accomplished.

||| Stream: “Sunshine”