Video: Mystic Braves, ‘Lonely Heart’

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Mystic Braves

Ten years after their retro, garagey psych-pop made them hot property in the L.A. scene, and then beyond, Mystic Braves are down to two founding members, Julian Ducatenziler and Shane
Stotsenberg. And for their fifth album, “Pacific Afterglow,” which the band vows will arrive this winter, they’ve rounded the bend toward a new sound.

They worked on their new album — the follow-up to 2018’s “the Great Unknown” — with producer Kyle Mullarky (Babe Rainbow, Allah La’s, The Growlers), and gone are the fuzzy, snap-crackle-pop effects that made some of their work, no matter how infectious, sound cryogenically frozen from a distant era.

This week’s new single is “Lonely Heart,” engagingly loopy in a different way — more soft-rock ’70s than dirty ’60s. It was preceded by the single “Sundown,” released in August.

“‘Lonely Heart’ is our attempt at channeling Gerry Rafferty,” Mystic Braves say. “The song is about complacency and the desire to move forward in life.”

In director Alexander Gilbert’s video, Nick Hargous is great as the janitor smitten by the song, and then Dominique Thaysen.

Nobody is filming us dancing and swaying in front of our laptop. Nope, nobody.

||| Watch: The video for “Lonely Heart”

||| Also: Stream “Sundown”

||| Previously: “Under Control,” live at the Teragram Ballroom, “Great Company,” “Born Without a Heart”