Kevin Bronson on April 13th, 2023

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These may, these may rock you: Check out new songs from Gal Pal, Teenage Wrist, Lauren Early and Aloud …

GAL PAL, “Angel in the Flesh”

After releasing “Mirror” in February, L.A. trio Gal Pal have announced that their first album in six years, “This and Other Gestures,” will be out June 2. “Angel in the Flesh,” a feedback fiesta with affecting male/female harmonies, charges ahead as the album’s lead single. “These songs are about us processing change. Is it good, is it bad? We’re grieving, we’re celebrating,” says Emelia Austin, who’s joined by Shayna Hahn and Nico Romero in the band. Of the single, Romero says, “I grew up listening to a lot of pop-punk and emo bands. I was a big fan of labels like Fueled By Ramen and Decaydance as a kid. I think this song definitely comes from that background a bit. It’s easy for me to want to sing about crushes and longing because it’s a fun feeling to indulge in and romanticize, even when it hurts.” Ashley Kron directed the video. See Gal Pal on May 13 at Permanent Records Roadhouse.

TEENAGE WRIST, “Sunshine”

Teenage Wrist is back in all their clamorous glory. The Pumpkinesque “Sunshine” is the band’s first single since their 2021 full-length, “Earth Is a Black Hole.” The track, co-produced by Kevin McCombs, is as pugilistic as it is optimistic, concerning itself with “letting go of past trauma, being present and finding love inside yourself,” says frontman Marshall Gallagher. “It’s about sharing happiness with someone else, maybe giving in to the impulse to say ‘fuck it’ and letting yourself be free and feel something positive. It’s something new for us; I don’t think there was a single happy song in the Wrist catalog until now, and we needed it.”

LAUREN EARLY, “Tomorrow”

Speaking of Smashing Pumpkins, rocker Lauren Early confesses that she has a thing for them, and it led to her new single, “Tomorrow.” “It’s maybe my favorite song I’ve ever made,” Early says. “It’s very haunted and very optimistic, which I think encapsulates the album as a whole. I began writing this song at the start of my obsession with the Smashing Pumpkins. For better or worse, I really identify with Billy Corgan’s approach to music. He has such a distinct vision and toils away obsessively to see it through. That’s me and this song: A million guitars. Real cello, fake cello. Me toiling away. In hindsight, I think I wanted to make a song as good as ‘Today’ and ended up writing a song called ‘Tomorrow.’” The tune is the second single from her debut album, “Don’t Take My Dream Away,” co-produced by Tabor Allen (Cherry Glazerr) and out May 19 via Danger Collective Records (almost exactly four years after her first EP). Early introduced the album in March with the single “Good Girl Bad Boy.” It’s an album with big aspirations: “I wanted to make a ‘Last Splash,’ a ‘Dookie,’ a ‘Siamese Dream’ … an album with absolutely no dead weight that takes you on a journey and adds another layer of joy, catharsis and … vibes to your life,” she says. Catch Early live on May 19 at Genghis Cohen.

ALOUD, “Big Blue”

L.A. rockers Aloud — Jen de la Osa, Henry Beguiristain, Charles Murphy and Chris Jago — riff hard and skirt genres. They’ll release their new album, “Apollo 6,” on May 19, and it’s loosely based on this line of thinking: “We kept asking ourselves, ‘What would a rock band on a different planet sound like?'” says de la Osa. “That question led to a lot of sonic experimentation, and we came up with a cosmic, echoing record where you can hear the room itself. You don’t just hear the song. You hear the space.” “Big Blue,” out last week, and their March single, “Mediation for the Housebound,” follow “Somewhere to Be” and “The Comeback Kid” as introductions to the album, which is decidedly all over the map. And it’s a pretty big map. Aloud celebrates the album release on May 18 with a show at the Silverlake Lounge.