Kevin Bronson on April 29th, 2021

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Four times the fun: Get your ears around new singles from Current Joys, DAVIS, Cheekface and Cartalk …

CURRENT JOYS, “Money Making Machine”

Current Joys’ new album “Voyager” is out May 14 and it will warrant the deepest of your dives. The follow-up to “Amateur” and “American Honey,” the new single “Money Making Machine” sounds carved from the setlist of indie-rock heroes headlining a festival, back when indie-rock heroes headlined festivals. Sadness on ecstasy. In other news, Nick Rattigan and gang will stage the livestreamed “The Phantom of the Highland Park Ebell” on May 19. It’s described as a “horror-comedy-play-concert-film-experience.” Get tickets here.

CHEEKFACE, “We Need a Bigger Dumpster”

The first single since releasing their sophomore album “Emphatically No.,” “We Need a Bigger Dumpster” is the latest volley of commentary/satire/hilarity from the trio of Greg Katz, Amanda Tannen and Mark Echo Edwards. More than just chronicling our times with guitar-spiked speak-singing, Cheekface are making dimples great again.

CARTALK, “Anyone”

The first single since their sweet debut “Pass Like Pollen,” “Anyone” is tender reminiscence complemented by surging guitars and vivid imagery (“Bougainvillea and bloodstain,” indeed). Like the album, it was made with Illuminati Hotties’ Sarah Tudzin. And speaking of the album, it’s being re-released on vinyl by Philadelphia’s Lame-O Records.

DAVIS, “Roads”

“Roads” is not the first time Orange County maverick Davis Fetter — now just DAVIS — wears his Anglophile influences on his sleeve. You can go back to his work in the band Venus Infers and even his early solo work to hear his affection for Britpop. “Roads” is more overt, though, an anthem with a different feel than recent excursions into more hyper pop and pop-punk.