Stream: New singles from Mini Trees, Coma Culture, Azure Ray and Bachelor

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Mini Trees (Photo by Nina Raj)

A quartet of new singles to make your Friday more fantastic: Hear fresh songs from Mini Trees, Coma Culture, Azure Ray and Bachelor …

MINI TREES, “Spring”

“Spring” has sprung, and so has singer-songwriter Lexi Vega’s new deal with Run for Cover Records, which will release the new Mini Trees album this fall. The new song is the follow-up to last year’s EP, “Slip Away.” “‘Spring’ is meant to be somewhat of a lighthearted love song about growing old with someone,” the songwriter says. “It confesses contrasting feelings of both fear and security that come with being vulnerable and fully known by another person. The underlying message is one of hopefulness, though.”

COMA CULTURE, “In Love”

The follow-up to their debut song titled “Coma Culture,” the SoCal trio of Eric Cannata and Francois Comtois (both of Young the Giant) and producer-songwriter Jon O’Brien are back with the day brightener “In Love,” written “to celebrate spontaneity and love,” the band says. “Hope it inspires you to take a road trip and dance around in the forest … or something like that.” We don’t say this often, but we get some faint Arcade Fire vibes here.

AZURE RAY, “Bad Dream”

Last month, the long-running duo of Maria Taylor and Orenda Fink announced the June 18 arrival of “Remedy,” their first album in 10 years, by unveiling its title track. They’re back today with the single “Bad Dream,” a positively dreamy track about the metaphorical other side of the pillow. It seems to ask the question: When you’re in the middle of nightmare, does your moral compass even work? “Wake up,” they harmonize.

BACHELOR, “Sick of Spiraling”

The follow-up to “Stay in the Car” and “Anything at All,” “Sick of Spiraling” is the latest from Bachelor, the collaboration between Jay Som’s Melina Duterte and Palehound’s Ellen Kempner. Written and recorded in Topanga, it finds the duo exploring their rootsier side, with Kempner’s lyrics “inspired by driving on tour and the rush and anxiety of being completely untethered and unprotected on the open road.” Bachelor’s album “Doomin’ Sun” is out May 28 via Polyvinyl.