Stream: Dear Boy, ‘Love Interest’

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Dear Boy (Photo by Casey Curry)
Dear Boy (Photo by Casey Curry)

L.A. quartet Dear Boy are not what you’d call prolific. Since 2013, they’ve released two EPs and four singles, with a freshly minted new one, “Love Interest,” arriving Friday. What the new song and the best of their past singles do is update (and to an extent Americanize) heroes of ’80s and ’90s new wave and Britpop. “Love Interest” might even have a thread of 2000s emo-pop in it, but one thing for sure: Had this song come out back in the day, there’s be a big poster of the sharp-dressed quartet on your sister’s wall.

Frontman Ben Grey says of the song: “‘Love Interest’ is a song written for our clumsy years. We wanted to write something recklessly optimistic about love and the joys of being out of your depth. Pulp had a big influence on this song. I wasn’t old enough to have them on my high school walls, but whenever I listen to them now, there’s a bizarre sense memory of something I never experienced. That’s a quality we were hoping to nuzzle up to while recording. Disco 2000 meet Disco 2018.”

Swoon accordingly.

||| Stream: “Love Interest”

||| Live: Dear Boy plays Jan. 31 at the Troubadour, along with Gothic Tropic and Pinky Pinky. Tickets.

||| Previously: “Cold Spell,” “Alluria,” “Local Roses”