Kevin Bronson on August 17th, 2018

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L.A. trio Milo Greene have gone hard toward soft rock on their new album, the aptly titled “Adult Contemporary,” which represents Act III in the band’s sonic evolution. Modern folkies on their debut on 2012 and purveyors of stylish ’80s-tinted electronic pop on 2015’s “Control,” the threesome of Robbie Arnett, Graham Fink and Marlana Sheetz continue to mint melodic nuggets that wonder about one’s place in the world. Or in the case of their latest single, “Young at Heart,” one’s place on life’s timeline.

You’ve heard the chorus of “Young at Heart” so many times it’s become bromide, but with its guileless dance-floor beat and the trio’s filmy harmonies, the song rings in as more than wishful thinking — it’s nostalgically adult, somewhat contemporary and 3 1/2 minutes of airbrushed sentimentality against the age lines of a mad, mad world.

The song was the first the band wrote in their Nashville sessions on the new album, “essentially kick-starting what would become ‘Adult Contemporary,’” the band says. “We were all strewn across Bill Reynolds’ studio floor experimenting with guitar pedals and synth patches, just enjoying making noise together. We had taken some time off ahead of that trip, so ‘Young at Heart’ was really the catalyst to the collaborative approach we applied to the entire album. It felt very much like one of our first writing trips together in 2010, and the lyrics naturally ended up speaking to that.”

“Adult Contemporary” is out Sept. 7 via Nettwerk.

||| Stream: “Young at Heart”

||| Also: Watch the video for “Move”

||| Live: Milo Greene plays an in-store at Amoeba on Sept. 6. They also perform on Sept. 22 at Pappy & Harriet’s in Pioneertown (tickets) and on Nov. 14 at the Teragram Ballroom (tickets).

||| Previously: “Move”