Kevin Bronson on December 3rd, 2016

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Director Baley Wynn’s vintage-looking video for Dear Boy single “Alluria” is a stylish concept smartly executed. You know all those old black-and-whites of famous bands looking bored in green rooms or hotel rooms, just killing time until they have to face the next horde of groupies? “We wanted the video to be a living rock photograph,” frontman Ben Grey told Impose, where video premiered, adding that the L.A. quartet were aiming for the feel of “those 1960s stills of rock ’n’ roll bands in their hotel rooms, where you fill in the blanks as to what they’re talking about. Those images really speak to you. … You can taste their chemistry.” The song is from the band’s second EP, “Parts of Flower,” which included the single “Local Roses” and solidified Dear Boy’s Britpop-meets-West Coast rock sound. They’ll put an exclamation point on their 2016 with a Troubadour show later this month.

||| Watch: The video for “Alluria”

||| Live: Dear Boy plays the Troubadour on Dec. 12 along with The Shelters. Tickets.

||| Previously: Live at Tarfest, “Alluria,” “Local Roses”