Kevin Bronson on January 3rd, 2020

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Pacific Radio formed in 2017 and hit the ground running — the L.A. quartet released an EP and their debut album, “Pretty, but Killing Me,” later that year and have been dispensing good time rock ’n’ roll ever since. Theirs is endearingly unfussy music with outsized hooks, muscular rhythms and witty, relatable lyrics.

It’s a formula for a time-honored ritual: Smile, sing along, drain your beer, repeat.

Pacific Radio’s first single of 2019, “Walk Away,” is one of those barroom anthems that could bring the house down at the end of a long night, when everybody’s in the groove and wants to stay there. The quartet — singer-guitarist Joe Robinson, bassist Joe Stiteler, guitarist Kyle Biane and drummer Hyke Shirinian — made the song with Grammy-nominated engineer Eric Weaver handling production duties, and backing vocals come courtesy of members of the Silver Lake Chorus.

And everybody gets into the act in the music video, which was filmed and edited by Weaver. The band enlisted a cast of L.A. scene all-stars to sing along, including Lucy LaForge, Polartropica, Elodie Tomlinson (The Dumes), Liam McCormick (Yellowbirddd), Peter Recine (The Dumes), Carli Storms, Kel Pritchard (The Silver Lake Chorus), Brian Williams (Old Sport), Chad McKinsey (Kinsey Rye), Brian “B-Rhyme” Fombona, Bo Liebman (The Indy Review), Boombox Bri, Jenna Mc and the Kepler Mission’s Toby Mason, John Kowalsky and Jamie Waite. (Not to mention Weaver himself.)

And Pacific Radio didn’t stop with just people they knew. More than 20 other “friends and strangers” have cameos in the clip.

The quartet has more singles simmering on the stove for release later this year.

||| Watch: The video for “Walk Away”

||| Previously: “Pretty, but Killing Me”