Kevin Bronson on December 12th, 2019

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Kera Armendariz, now working as just KERA after dispensing musical magic for a few years as Kera & the Lesbians, has signed to Mama Bird Recording Co. (home to Damien Jurado, Vetiver and Haley Heynderickx, among others).

To mark the occasion, the always-captivating, style-shifting songwriter today unveiled the new song “Vitamin T,” or a stripped-down version of it (it’s labeled as “demo”), which is kind of a doo-wop ballad for the dream-pop generation. The vintage black-and-white video, directed by Alexa Nikol Curran, seems unearthed from a canister buried for decades in a vault.

“’Vitamin T’ explores connection and the importance of accepting change in relationships,” KERA says. “When I first began writing, I was thinking about the people I no longer speak to and how, at first, that separation caused immense pain and resentment in my heart. In time, I began to recognize there were reasons for this loss and changes I had to make; and now I’ve learned to view these experiences through a more compassionate lens. I wrote this song to honor my past relationships and to celebrate those that have given me the tools to identify the type of support I want to give and surround myself with.”

“Vitamin T” follows the release earlier this year of KERA’s with Devendra Banhart, “Bright Future Ahead,” released in support of TransLifeline.

There’s more from KERA (and other L.A. artists on Mama Bird) coming in the new year.

||| Watch: The video for “Vitamin T”

||| Previously: “Bright Future Ahead,” “Bright Future Ahead (The Dreamer Version),” “Fall Apart,” “Snakes”