Kevin Bronson on April 28th, 2017

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You can feel both the giddy anticipation for summer (and the sure-to-arrive “songs of the …”) and the foreboding shadow of the world’s social and political climate in the new songs that arrived this week from Foster the People. In announcing that the follow-up to their 2014 sophomore album “Supermodel” would arrive this year (date TBA), the L.A. quartet released not one, not two, but three singles on Thursday. The EP/three-song bundle has its own title, “III,” and includes the tracks “Doing It for the Money,” “Pay the Man” and “S.H.C.” The band — Mark Foster and Mark Pontius, now with touring regulars Isom Innis and Sean Cimino as official members — have lined up a big summer of touring (no SoCal dates yet). And it’s clear than they’re eager to get back in the fray. “One of my favorite things about music is that it’s unifying,” Foster said in the album announcement. “We wrote these songs to reflect joy in a time where people have needed it more than ever and we thought it was a good time to share them with you.” Whether he is doing it for love or doing it for the money, Foster’s skills at crafting earworms haven’t diminished.

||| Stream: “Doing It for the Money,” “Pay the Man” and “S.H.C.”