Kevin Bronson on June 8th, 2023

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Catch-up with some “volume-up” new songs from Heavenward, Supergloom, Osees and Kit Major. Sample them all …

HEAVENWARD, “Be My Blues”

We’re a week away from the release of “Pyrophonics,” the debut album from Kamtin Monagher’s project Heavenward, so adjust the volume on your listening device accordingly. Monagher (Chain Gang of 1974) originally wrote “Be My Blues,” the follow-up to singles “Gasoline” and “Supernova,” with Marshall Gallagher when they were bandmates in Teenage Wrist. Here, Monagher’s vocals yearn and guitars burn; the fires of the ’90s burn brightly. “I wanted to write about the lust and desire that often comes with an unhealthy relationship,” he says. “You can get so accustomed to the unfair treatment and disrespect that you end up justifying it in order to feel some sort of attention. In a way, you use those moments as emotional or physical fulfillment, having the acts become somewhat fetishized.”

SUPERGLOOM, “Old Friend”

Supergloom — Shane Graham, Bertrand Vellky, Peter Doherty, Ethan Walden and Drew Aron — will release their second EP of aerial psych-rock later this year. It’s produced by Smashing Pumpkins’ Jeff Schroeder, with co-production and engineering by Jules de Gasperis. “Silhouette” (the follow-up to the equally soaring “Old Friend,” released in April) is the second single, a slice of majestically dense DIIV/Deerhunter meets the Desert Daze aesthetic. With Supergloom’s members having done notable works in L.A. bands past and present, rest assured they know how to soundtrack a liquid light show. Supergloom plays along with Dream Phases, Daydram Time Machine and Hair on July 7 at the Paramount.

OSEES, “Intercepted Message”

Whatever John Dwyer is doing with Osees / Oh Sees / Thee Oh Sees today, you know it could be different five minutes from now. So enjoy the pugilistic synth-punk of “Intercepted Message,” which sounds like Iggy Pop doing the Cars. (Dwyer as an achorman in the video is icing on the cake.) It’s the title track of a new album Osees will release Aug. 18 via In the Red Records. Find Dwyer’s soliloquy on the record in the credits on the video. Osees will play Day 3 of Substance 2023 at DTLA’s Globe Theatre on Nov. 9.

KIT MAJOR, “Break Up Again”

“Break Up Again” is one of two singles (see also: “I Wish U Didn’t Hate Me So Much”) that Kit Major released in May as the follow-up to November’s “Vampire Saturday” EP. It’s classic pop-rock, with an Anglophile bent, and Major injects the music with attitude and humor. The video for the track was directed by Adrian Vega Albela Osorio. “The video is the first introduction to my next era, titled ‘Love. Sick. Major.’ It was a dream of a music video to make and put together; it’s very Beatlesque,” she says. “I’ve been performing with my band since November and it’s so exciting to have our first video all together.”