Kevin Bronson on June 9th, 2022

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Three that are good for your spirit: Check out new singles from Jacklen Ro, Sylvie and Doe Paoro …

JACKLEN RO, “Time Bomb”

Last year, heart-on-the-sleeve harmonizers Jackie Giroux and Caelen Perkins — Jacklen Ro — earned thumbs-ups for “Hollywood, I’m Good” (a highlight on their EP “Til There Was You”) and follow-up singles such as “Oh It’s So Sad.” They’re back with more earnest goodness in the way of “Time Bomb,” which along with the March single “Life With You” is the latest taste of an album in the works for Lolipop Records. “‘Time Bomb’ is a song about a self-destructive relationship that just feels so good,” the duo says. “It is knowing that the fiery passion you have with someone is going to end, but not dwelling on that and enjoying it while you got it. It’s about accepting your own flaws and the flaws in others and just riding it all out.” Catch Jacklen Ro on Friday night at the Love Song in downtown L.A. (free) and on Saturday at the Continental Room in Fullerton (tickets).

SYLVIE, “Stealing Time”

You might have heard Sylvie’s origin story — Ben Schwab (of Golden Daze) finds the circa-1975 lost tapes of his father’s band and is inspired, with requisite wonderment, to musically time-travel. To discover more sylvies, and maybe create a few himself. A self-titled EP arrived last year in all its splendor. Now that release is expanding into a full album, arriving Oct. 14 via Full Time Hobby. “I aspire to write timeless songs I could relate to 40 years from now,” says Schwab. “Putting my own life experiences, friends and family into them, making Sylvie has been a spiritual pursuit.” He worked with vocalists Marina Allen and Sam Burton — his father John also makes an appearance on two songs — and was backed by Connor Gallagher (pedal steel), Sam Kauffman Skloff (drums) and JJ Kirkpatrick (horns) in the making of the album. Another slice of Wet Coast folk finery, “Stealing Time” is the latest single. The song, Schwab says, “is a song about escaping the congested and overstimulating city of L.A. and getting out to the countryside — trying to find moments of peace and reflection.” Sylvie opens for Loving on Aug. 24 at Zebulon.

DOE PAORO, “All My Life Is a Ceremony”

Doe Paoro’s new EP “Divine Surrendering” arrives Friday, and after sharing the title track in April and “Phases” last month, “All My Life Is a Ceremony” is the latest reveal. It’s as transcendental as the first two singles — music as healing, ritual as part of the process. “This was from something I heard an elder friend of mine share in an ayahuasca ceremony about 10 years ago that stayed with me all this time,” Paoro says. “‘I am learning that this entire life, every moment, every birth and every death, is somehow a ceremony.’ So much of my personal yearning has been to reintegrate this lost sense of the sacred into my daily life, searching for ritual.”