Stream: Plague Vendor, ‘Let Me Get High/Low’

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Plague Vendor (Photo by Robert Hickerson)
Plague Vendor (Photo by Robert Hickerson)

Ever since Brandon Blaine’s voice first pierced the night at Los Angeles clubs, Plague Vendor has been this city’s best way to get your ya-ya’s out. Their third album, “By Night,” which comes out June 7 via Epitaph, finds the quartet flexing their muscles in slightly different, though still heavy, ways.

Like throwing down a little psych-rock, as it turns out. The album’s third single, “Let Me Get High/Low,” comes at you like an invading army, an attack force of guitar and beats that echoes and echoes across the battlefield. “You held me captive / in your embrace / Looking back in the mirror / I see your face,” Blaine cries, seemingly in the throes of an existential crisis.

Blaine and bandmates Michael Perez (bass), Luke Perine (drums) and Jay Rogers (guitar) worked on the album with producer John Congleton (St. Vincent, Sharon Van Etten, Chelsea Wolfe). A cozy L.A. show is in the works on the eve of the album release.

||| Stream: “Let Me Get High\Low”

||| Also: Stream “All of the Above”

||| Live: Plague Vendor plays House of Machines in downtown L.A. on June 6.

||| Previously: “New Comedown,” “Locomotive”