Video: Launder, ‘Keep You Close’ (feat. Soko)

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“Pink Cloud,” the debut EP from Launder, is filled with lo-fi darts to the heart, songs that ooze a strikingly pretty but ramshackle melancholy. Like a rainy day in the Valley, as the new video for “Keep You Close” suggests.

Launder, which surfaced in January, is helmed by John Cudlip, who upon moving to L.A. met Jackson Phillips of Day Wave and began exploring fuzzy dream-pop in Phillips’ Echo Park studio. Cudlip announced today at the EP would be released April 27.

French singer-songwriter Soko guests on the EP (as does Zachary Cole Smith of DIIV), and she is featured most prominently on “Keep You Close,” delivering its melt-your-heart chorus: “There’s too many / too many ways / to keep you close / but I can’t find one.” Oh, if this song only would have been around for the “Lost in Translation” soundtrack.

||| Watch: The video for “Keep You Close”

||| Also: Stream the song, along with “Annie Blue”