Stream: Prettypleas, ‘Better Luck Next Year’

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Prettyplease (Jake Gideon and Jacqueline Santillán Beighley)

Here’s one final song for the holiday season — a beautiful and poignant one at that — and perfect for New Year’s Day.

It’s from a duo going by the moniker Prettypleas, a collaboration between two longtime L.A. musicians who have worked together before but now have given the project a rather ingenious name.

“Better Luck Next Year,” released right before Christmas, is the brainchild of Jacqueline Santillán Beighley, one-half of the husband-wife duo Wait. Think. Fast, and Jake Gideon, who fronts long-running L.A. rockers the Breakups in addition to playing guitar in the Pretty Flowers.

It was 10 years ago that the pair collaborated on a song that eventually appeared on the Breakups’ album “Running Jumping Falling Shouting.”

So, pretty please, enjoy this sentiment: “Took a few knocks, stomach in knots / Better luck next year / Out of the haze, turning the page / Hope for the next year.”

||| Stream: “Better Luck Next Year”