Kevin Bronson on April 29th, 2022

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New singles (and album/EP announcements) from Cuco, the Wrecks and Kit Major: Here goes …

THE WRECKS, “Where Are You Now?” (feat. Girlhouse)

L.A. quartet the Wrecks have announced that their sophomore album, “Sonder,” will be out June 10. It’s the follow-up to 2020’s full-length “Infinitely Ordinary,” and to celebrate the news they have released a new single, “Where Are You Now?” Mixing dream-pop and bombastic rock, the song is a collaboration with Girlhouse (Lauren Luiz of WILD). Wrecks main man Nick Anderson reveals that he wrote the chorus to the new song only two weeks after “Infinitely Ordinary” was released. But Billy Nally’s drums and Girlhouse’s vocals were added in March. “The drums made it come to life, and Lauren Luiz’s part glues the whole track together,” Anderson says. “I love her voice and music, and I’m so happy with how this turned out.” Previous singles “Lone Survivor” and “I Love This Part” are also slated for the album. The Wrecks’ July 23 show at the Regent Theater is sold out, but they’ve added a second show, on July 22, and tickets are available.

CUCO, “Caution”

You never know what’s next from Hawthorne’s Omar Banos since he won hearts with his trippy bedroom psych-pop five years ago. The songwriter today announced that the second Cuco full-length, “Fantasy Gateway,” will be out July 22. His new pop bop “Caution” is the follow-up to February’s collab with Boy Pablo, “La Novela.” Neither that song, nor any of his three 2021 singles, will appear on the album (although there are appearances by Kacey Musgraves and Adriel Favela, DannyLux and Bratty). As for the new single, yep, he still has “Feelings.” “‘Caution’ is a song that talks about going through different mental health issues and not wanting to bombard the people around you with your problems, so you just keep them to yourself,” Cuco says. “But sometimes putting all that weight on yourself results in a feeling of being out of control when everything explodes.” Cuco plays the Viva! L.A. Music Festival on June 25 at Dodger Stadium.

KIT MAJOR, “I’m Bitter!”

After more than a dozen singles dating back to 2018 — including this dalliance with Muppets — Chicago-bred, L.A.-based Kit Major has announced that her debut EP, “Vampire Saturday,” will be out this summer. Her new single “I’m Bitter!” delves into Y2K pop-punk. Exclamation point. “I wanted to make a cinematic breakup song, hitting rom-com visuals like burning pictures, forgotten T-shirts and flowers,” Major says. “But the more I wrote the more I realized I was self-editing to protect myself from feeling pain and disappointment, which of course, made me want to keep going to break through that! I’m a writer because I can only get through this world through music and my imagination. I’m a romantic (and a nervous one), but with these last couple of years, especially with the pandemic, I’ve felt that I’ve been at risk of losing my own magic. I’ve noticed when you get older, it’s so much easier to get absorbed in your day-to-day existence. I don’t ever want to lose my imagination. I don’t want to stop wishing and hoping, and I don’t want to stop loving because I have so much love to give. This is a song for the inner romantics.”