Kevin Bronson on June 30th, 2016

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Bad Suns sounded all grown up back in early 2013, when then-teenaged L.A. quartet dropped their debut single “Cardiac Arrest.” Their beyond-their-years debut “Language & Perspective” followed in 2014, a collection of style-shifting but anthemic pop-rock that felt like more than the empty cries that fill FM radio. So now that frontman Christo Bowman is old enough to legally have a beer? Emotional turmoil, apparently. The quartet — Bowman along with bassist Gavin Bennett, guitarist Ray Libby and drummer Miles Kottak — today unveiled the title track to their sophomore album, “Disappear Here” (out Sept. 16 via Vagrant). “We wanted to capture the emotion of a crossroads in life being suddenly interrupted by the ground collapsing beneath your feet,” Bowman says of the single. Like the band’s debut, the new album was produced by Eric Palmquist (Thrice, Mutemath, Night Riots), and the single’s arena-ready guitars and dramatic pauses dial in to the lyrics, an outpouring of conflicted emotions about whether love should stay or disappear.

||| Stream: “Disappear Here”

||| Live: Bad Suns open for Halsey at the Shrine on July 14 and 15.

||| Previously: Live at Coachella, “We Move Like the Ocean,” “Salt,” “Cardiac Arrest”