Kevin Bronson on August 7th, 2019

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Borrowed Beams of Light is the indie-pop project helmed by songwriter Adam Brock, a multi-instrumentalist and, before he migrated west, veteran of East Coast DIY circles and player in Charlottesville, Va., bands such as Weird Mob and Y’all. While rooted in classic rock, Brock’s baroque-meets-folk-meets-psych-pop music takes a conceptual approach, with his often opaque wordplay and seemingly innocent vignettes conspiring to make larger statements about modern life. It is not surprising to find that Bill Callahan is one of his heroes.

The forthcoming album “Do It Again” will be Borrowed Beams of Light’s first full-length since 2013, and while much has happened in the world since then, Brock endeavors to take inventory.

The first single “Rush Around the Sun” could be a lighter-hearted companion to songs from the National’s late-Aughts albums.

“The new album as a whole catalogues a lot of changes that have occurred in the last few years — my wife and I moved to L.A., we started a family, I became a high school English teacher — and ‘Rush Around the Sun’ really encapsulates a lot of the emotions tied to that flux,” Brock says. “It’s essentially about trying to slow down during a time when everything urges you forward, to decide which moments of your life are worth parsing and sifting through, and which ones you should just let go of.”

||| Stream: “Rush Around the Sun”