Kevin Bronson on June 30th, 2023

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Three buoyant singles in today’s roundup: Sample the latest from Diners, Yoke Lore and Poolside …

DINERS, “Domino”

Blue Broderick’s new album as Diners, “Domino,” will be out Aug. 18. Produced by Mo Troper, it’s the follow-up to 2022’s “Four Wheels and the Truth” and the first since the Arizona-bred artist, previously known for lo-fi pop, moved to L.A., came out as trans and embraced a crisp guitar sound that will bring a smile to the faces of fans of Big Star, the dB’s and the Feelies. The affecting title track, Broderick says, “is a jangling, introspective rocker about reminding everybody to give themselves more grace and credit than they might think they deserve. This music was deeply inspired by Emitt Rhodes and has my favorite guitar solo on the record.” In the video for the track, Broderick and bandmates (including Feff Rosenstock) tool around L.A. having a good time. The new song follows harmony-rich single “The Power,” released in May. Diners play Aug. 18 at Genghis Cohen.

YOKE LORE, “Shake”

The follow-up to the single “Winona,” “Shake” introduces Adrian Galvin’s debut full-length as Yoke Lore, “Toward a Never Ending New Beginning” (out Sept. 22). “‘Shake’ is a dedication, a declaration, and a demonstration,” Galvin says of the single, which boasts the kind of precise production that seems to have his upper-register vocals float in like clouds. “It is a dialogue between me and the world. I wrote this at a time when I felt isolated by my own sluggish trepidation. One day as I was laying in a pool of sweaty lethargic shame, I came across an ancient Chinese oracle called the I-Ching or Book of Change. I threw some coins and divined a hexagram made up of six stacked lines. It was called Zhen or Shake or Shock. It told me that I was at an inflection point. It demanded that I shake myself up out of the malaise or things would go septic. We all go through periods of stale stagnation. Our bodies and our lives have to be lived in motion. If we stay the same, we fail to grow, we get brittle in the body, we get stubborn in the mind, we go blind in the heart. By embracing the flux inherent in our nature, we can find some harmony. Shake yourself out of the torpor and toward a never ending new beginning.” Yoke Lore plays the Fonda Theatre on Sept. 15, along with Girlhouse.

POOLSIDE, “Back to Life” (feat. Panama)

Pillowy, ’70s-styled soft rock isn’t far from “daytime disco,” the easygoing music that is Poolside’s hallmark. The follow-up to the single “Each Night,” “Back to Life” finds Poolside’s Jeffrey Paradise again teaming up with Panama’s Jarrah McCleary (they had collaborated on two songs on Poolside’s 2020 album “Low Season”). “‘Back To Life’ dates back to early 2021,” Paradise says. “The pandemic was in full swing and I spent all of the lockdown working on music and growing my production chops at home. Then one day Alex Kemp at Wolf at the Door studios — who worked on ‘Low Season’ with me — told me it was safe to come by the studio, and we immediately got to work on this track with Panama. We tapped into groovy light rock meets funk energy and channeled our collective feeling of yearning for connection and a return to normalcy in the lyrics. … Part of me wanted it to come out as soon as possible as things were opening up, but I’m glad we waited. Not only did it take a lot longer than anyone expected for us to come back to life — has that even happened, really? — but the song benefited from the added time and care.” Poolside plays Aug. 2 at the Bellwether.