Kevin Bronson on May 25th, 2020

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L.A. dream-pop quintet Nightjacket has returned with a new single and a new frontwoman — but the same, alluring drunk-on-life-and-love vibe.

“Lonely Archer,” which came out Friday, introduces Canadian-born singer Andrea Wasse (of the duo Digital Daggers and more recently a collaborator with Draemings’ Thomas Thorson in DeadXLife). Wasse, who comes on board after the departure last year of Holland Belle, apparently made quite a first impression on the architects of Nightjacket’s sound, guitarist Jordan Wiggins and multi-instrumentalist Louie Schultz.

After Wiggins sent her some demos, she met up with the pair at Schultz’s Eagle Rock studio and laid down the vocals for “Lonely Archer” that same day. The single is the first from Nightjacket’s forthcoming EP “Following the Curves” (out Sept. 25), the follow-up to last year’s full-length “Beauty in the Dark.”

“I tend to write about relationships,” Wasse says of penning the lyrics to the new tune. “When we were writing this song, I was thinking about — and laughing at — how in my youth I would always passionately throw myself into relationships that were absolutely riddled with red flags. But as an adult, wounded and made worldly because of these experiences, I was jaded, a little too guarded and set in my ways and … lonely. And I knew I wasn’t alone in that. So basically this song is a plea to my fellow ‘lonely archers’ to just take a shot, take a chance, as I, myself, was trying to let my guard down and do the same.”

||| Stream: “Lonely Archer”

||| Previously: “Pink and Yellow Roses,” live at the Bootleg, “Waking Up With You,” “The Right Way to Fall”