Stream: Singles from Osnova, Beach Bums and Indiana Bradley

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Mighty interesting Sunday listening: Stream singles from Osnova, Beach Bums and Indiana Bradley …

OSNOVA, “Too Convenient”

Osnova began as an instrumental duo helmed by guitarist Jean-Claude Vorgeack, a onetime KXLU DJ and now a fashion photographer, and drummer Sam Ribejro. Vocalist Caroline McLaughlin then came aboard, and the founding duo had a siren for their expansive, cinematic noise. To call them a shoegaze trio would be selling Osnova a bit short, although shoegaze-heads figure to love their immersive post- and art-rock. The trio’s five-song debut EP came out September, and “Too Convenient” is a good entry point. Osnova played their first full-band show last month; you can catch their second on Dec. 17 at Harvard & Stone.

BEACH BUMS, “Mystkluv”

No band we’ve heard in these parts is better at inflicting sonic whiplash than Beach Bums, who hurtle between hardcore, bedroom pop, hip-hop, lo-fi post-punk, indie-rock and 808 scribbles with nonchalance. They call what they do “mycore,” and, yeah, whatever. It isn’t boring. They expanded from a three-piece to a quintet for their album “Overcast,” released in August, and you earn a merit badge if you listen to it two times, front-to-back. (Go ahead, it’s fun, and you’ll be done in under an hour.) “Mystkluv” is their follow-up single and, bloody hell, Beach Bums weren’t even satisfied with taking you down its wormhole just one way. Besides the A-side version (which you’ll find below), there’s a “sped up” version with more caffeine.

INDIANA BRADLEY, “Animals”

The follow-up to last month’s single, “Rats on Cocaine,” “Animals” again finds Indiana Bradley working with AFI bassist Hunter Burgan. Compared to the visceral intensity of “Rats,” Bradley’s new single sounds almost like a lamentation, sealed by his convincing baritone. “‘Animals’ is a conversation between the conscious self and the dream self, attempting to solve where their shared soul fits in the world and if it can achieve happiness before death,” he says. “The simple words of a mother echo as a plea to be happy for her sake, if nothing else.” By the way, the video incorporates 86-year-old art by an experimental filmmaker from New Zealand, Len Lye. It originally was a stop-motion promotion for an oil company.