Kevin Bronson on August 12th, 2022

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Genre-hopping on a Friday: Check out the latest from from Adam Melchor, Cosmo Gold, Reckling and PJ Western …

ADAM MELCHOR, “Turnham Green”

Released last week, “Turnham Green” is the first single from Adam Melchor’s debut album, “Here Goes Nothing,” out Oct. 21 via Warner. Bathed in warm atmospherics, the tune reflects Melchor’s deft feel for elevating his diary entries to evocative folk-pop and forging a strong connection with fans. During the pandemic, he launched Melchor’s Lullaby Hotline, where he sent out 40 original songs to more than 10,000 followers. A dozen of those tracks were released last year as a mixtape. The album finds him working with co-producer Henry Kwapis (with additional contributions from Andrew Sarlo, Dale Becker and Fili Filizzola) and it features Fleet Foxes on one track.

As for “Turnham Green,” it’s about “listening to someone’s reason for hurting you, taking every step they took in your own mind and realizing you’ll never be able to see the same colors they saw when they hurt you.” Melchor’s 2023 tour will bring him to the Fonda Theatre on March 10.

COSMO GOLD, “Craigslist Miracle”

Cosmo Gold’s merrily spastic new single “Craigslist Miracle” is the third single from the L.A. band’s forthcoming album, “Krong,” arriving late this year. It’s part of a journey to the titular alternate universe that celebrates doubt — Cosmo Gold explains the conceit this way: “They say, ‘follow your heart’ — but what if your heart is wrong?” The follow-up to “Tuff Stuff” and “Let Go (Just a Little),” “Craigslist Miracle” references the band’s past. “When creating our album, the band and our producer, Neil Wogensen, all lived together in a big run-down ‘mansion’ in Los Angeles that we found on Craigslist, along with three other musician friends,” singer Emily Gold says. “This song was inspired by that very special time in our lives and the pseudo-cult of misfits that we were collecting in that wacky, magical house.”

RECKLING, “Spitter”

“Spitter,” the lead song on Reckling’s new EP, “Human Nature,” is a two-minute fusillade of anger that appeared (in rougher form and with different lyrics) on the project’s 2018 album. On the new EP, made with multi-instrumentalist Erik Jimenez and recorded/mixed by NO WIN’s by Danny Nogueiras, it’s got sharper teeth. “Human Nature” — three originals (including “Verbalize” and “In My Hair”) and a Bad Brains cover, is out today. Stream it here in its entirety and see the band with Dens Lens, Jagged Baptist Club and Strawberry Fuzz on Aug. 25 at the Echo.

PJ WESTERN, “Here I Go”

The follow-up to “Human Machines” and “Blah Blah Blah,” the retro-psych romp “Here I Go” is the title track of PJ Western’s debut album. Here, PJ Western (aka Joshua Epstein of JR JR) blithely takes his pent-up pandemic frustrations and looks at the future. “I’ll be counting down the days until / The power comes back on / Though I may never return to who I was / Before the lights were gone,” he sings. “Here I Go,” the album, is out Sept. 16 via New West Records.