Video: Dengue Fever, ‘Touch Me Not’

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Dengue Fever (Photo by Marc Walker)

For two decades, Dengue Fever have forged a path as one of L.A.’s most distinctive musical hybridizers — fronted by native Cambodian pop siren Chhom Nimol, who sings in her native Khmer, they at first shaped a sound based on that country’s ’60s-era psych-pop before gradually incorporating other styles from across the globe.

On Friday, the sextet announced that this fall they will release their first album since 2015’s “The Deepest Lake.” “Ting Mong” will be out Sept. 15 via the band’s own Tuk Tuk Records.

“We gave ourselves parameters recording ‘Ting Mong,’ but we smashed the rules we created for ourselves on past albums,” bassist Senon Williams says. “The songs’ sole purpose was to let our lead singer Chhom Nimol’s voice soar. It was our mood or perhaps the mood of the world that gave us focus on the sublime and the melancholy. We purposely left the frenetic energy and noise to yesterday.”

Nimol does indeed mesmerize in the high registers on the album’s first single, “Touch Me Not.” The song’s release came on the 20th anniversary of the release of the band’s debut album.

“Ting Mong” is the sixth full-length from Dengue Fever — Nimol, Williams, brothers Zac and Ethan Holtzman, Paul Smith and DAvid Ralicke.

||| Watch: The video for “Touch Me Not”

||| Previously: Live at the Fonda, “The Deepest Lake,” live at Echo Park Rising, “Rom Say Sok” video, “Rom Say Sok,” “Cement Slippers,” “Sleepwalking Through the Mekong”