Video: Hello Forever, ‘I Want to Marry You’

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Hello Forever

As the sublime harmonies kick in during “I Want to Marry You,” you can almost smell the incense wafting down from atop Topanga Canyon, where singer-songwriter Samuel Joseph’s pop collective Hello Forever is stationed. “Sitting on the grass beside a stranger / Memories of a time when we were ageless / Offer her my hand and then she takes it / Rupturing inside. Here I’m awake and warm,” he sings sanguinely.

The tune is the latest from the flower-toting outfit (which includes co-founder Andy Jimenez, Molly Pease, Jaron Crespi, Joey Briggs and Anand Darsie) as they march happily toward the Feb. 21 release of their debut album, “Whatever It Is.” Their ’60s throwback sound, tweaked with quirky modern production, is calibrated to find your happy place, if you have one, or can remember where you put it after you survived the Summer of Love. That Hello Forever could be found playing live this week at the oppressively hipster Silver Lake outpost Tenants of the Trees surely meant they took the wrong exit off the 101.

Of the inspiration for the song, Joseph says: “It was a perfect late April afternoon and the sun was ripe and I suddenly felt so much tenderness in the relationship between everything around me. It’s seeing eternity inside someone and seeing their place in eternity at the same time. It’s that wow, yes, magic warm feeling and you gotta celebrate it right now because after this it might be nothing forever.”

Smell the flowers and drink the Kool-Aid. Precious few others are mixing it right now.

||| Watch: The video for “I Want to Marry You”

||| Also: Watch the video for “Anywhere Is Everywhere” and “Colors in the Sky”

||| Previously: “Some Faith”