Stream: Amo Amo, ‘Missed Connection’

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Amo Amo (Photo by Dominoe Farris)

Coming off a year in which they released their Jim James-produced debut album and collaborated with Poolside to go “Around the Sun,” L.A. quintet Amo Amo will return June 19 with a new EP, “Canta.”

The band trades in languid dream-pop — the kind that suggests some friendly spirit guides appropriated a batch of folk songs and cast a spell on them. The vibe is at the same time warm and chill on their new single “Missed Connection,” out today. Here, the quintet — Lovelle Femme, Omar Velasco, Justin Flint, Shane Mckillop and Alex Siegel — tackles the common theme of technology’s encroachment on humanity.

“People walking backwards staring at their hands / Missing the connection they don’t know they have / Caught up in a system to keep us all so numb / So we don’t see a reason for loving anyone,” Femme sings.

“‘Missed Connection’ explores themes of isolation and the absence of human connection within our technology-obsessed culture — a message which feels especially resonant in the current climate of pandemic and social distancing,” the band says. “The song expresses a deeply felt yearning for reconnection, not only with one another but with all forms of life and with Earth itself.”

Speaking of, the new single follows the April release of the title track, in honor of Earth Day. The EP will be out via Poolside’s Pacific Standard Records.

||| Stream: “Missed Connection” and “Canta”

||| Live: Amo Amo is scheduled to play the Ohana Festival on Sept. 25.

||| Previously: “When I Look at You,”