Kevin Bronson on May 2nd, 2019

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Since releasing their full-length “Eternal Lonesome” in 2016 and a self-titled EP the following year, L.A. dark-pop trio Draemings have unleashed a steady stream of singles that prowl emotional shadows and seek some catharsis, or at least comfort, there.

“Stranger Than Believing” is their first of the new year, and it’s a throbbing trip into the nocturnal, like being led into a loud nightclub with your head wrapped in a black hood. “Closed doors / and pulsing lights,” Kimi Recor repeats, her incantation answered by bubbling synths. Recor and bandmates Christopher Vick and Thorson are working on a new full-length that may or may not include some of those 2018 singles. Either way, it promises to be immersive.

||| Stream: “Stranger Than Believing”

||| Also: Stream “Golden Age”

||| Live: Draemings play Zebulon tonight, along with Crook and Ever So Android. It’s a free show. They also play July 12 at Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles as part of the free summer concert series in MacArthur Park.

||| Previously: “Siamese Flame,” “Loveless”