Kevin Bronson on September 17th, 2021

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So many fun videos on the radar this week, and there is only one of me: Here, enjoy new arrivals from Syd, Dream Phases, Together Pangea and Magdalena Bay …

SYD, “Right Track” (feat. Smino)

In July, Syd released “Fast Car” and starred in a video riding a Ford Bronco. Now, in the video for “Right Track,” she’s truly in a fast car, a gorgeous vintage GTO, tooling around with Smino. Syd also just announced a Sept. 22 performance at the Ford with the LA Phil.

DREAM PHASES, “Post TV”

Two years since the release of their debut album “So Long, Yesterday,” psych-pop operatives Dream Phases are readying another. “New Distractions” will be out on Nov. 10 via Nomad Eel Records, and it finds songwriter Brandon Graham, who started Dream Phases as a solo project, working in collaboration with bandmates Keveen Baudouin and Shane Graham. The Graham brothers co-wrote the first single, “Post TV,” and the video, co-directed by Matthew Lingo and Richard G. Auxilio with visual effects by Andrew Platt (Stranger Liquids), transports the viewer from various L.A. locales to a performance space teeming with televisions. Far out, man.

TOGETHER PANGEA, “Rapture”

“It’s not a king returning / It’s just a country burning,” Together Pangea declares on their new single. The follow-up to “Nervous,” “One Way or Another” and “Nothing to Hide,” “Rapture” will appear on the trio’s new album “Dye,” out Oct. 22. The video makes a statement equal to the song’s — we’re all watching the world burn, or flood, or be blown away. Tickets remain for their Oct. 23 album-release show at the Troubadour.

MAGDALENA BAY, “You Lose!”

“We ran out of video budget, we lost our dog and we suck at basketball. Sometimes you win, but most times you lose!” L.A. pop duo Magdalena Bay says in introducing the video for their new single. The follow-up to “Chaeri” and “Secrets (Your Fire),” the song is from their album “Mercurial World” (out Oct. 8). And indeed, their DIY video is full of pratfalls and badly missed shots. The duo says the new tune is “about trying to be a musician and feeling like time for success is always running out. It’s definitely melodramatic, describing ourselves as aging and nearing death, but sometimes it really feels that way.” Ostensibly, they’ll still be kicking around Nov. 11 when they perform with George Clanton at 1720. (Their Oct. 8 show at El Cid is sold out.)