Video: Dear Boy, ‘Forever Sometimes’

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Dear Boy (Photo by Jonathan Weiner)

What’s remarkable about L.A. quartet Dear Boy is not that three-quarters of their original lineup are still around as the years have flown by. Or that nine years after their first EP, Dear Boy will release their debut album. Or that frontman Ben Grey looks as poster-worthy as he did when he formed his first band in 2011.

No, what’s amazing is how true Dear Boy have remained to their sonic aesthetic and love-conquers-all ideal. Like the New Romantics of the 1980s and the Britpop artists that followed, they make songs to fall in love to. And with.

“Forever Sometimes,” the title track to the full-length Dear Boy will release on Sept. 16 via Last Gang Records, is another. It’s a swirling five-minute anthem that seems sent down from the heavens, or from the great beyond.

“‘Forever Sometimes’ deals with life after death, love after life and the complexity of what it means to leave something or someone behind,” Grey says of the title track, adding more broadly: “A lot of this record is about our shared time on Earth and the idea that for so many of us, love is truly the hereafter we’re looking for. The night sky isn’t any one person’s territory. There are answers up there for everybody.”

The quartet — Grey, guitarist Austin Hayman, drummer Keith Cooper and bassist Lucy Lawrence — self-produced the album, with a mix from Tony Hoffer and appearances from Day Wave, Hazel English, Rogue Wave, AFI and Ian Hultquist (Passion Pit).

||| Watch: The video for “Forever Sometimes”

||| Live: Dear Boy headline the El Rey Theatre on Oct. 28. Tickets on sale Friday.

||| Previously: “Wet Clothes,” “(On My) Mind,” Quarantunes, “The Nominee,” “Semester,” “Love Interest,” “Cold Spell,” “Alluria,” live at Tarfest, “Local Roses,” “Hesitation Waltz,” “Oh So Quiet”