Kevin Bronson on January 25th, 2022

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Get your ears around new songs from Luka Kloser, Magic Giant and Sleeptalk …

LUKA KLOSER, “One More Time”

The new song from 23-year-old singer-songwriter and producer Luka Kloser accompanies the end title of the new we’re-all-gonna-die movie from Roland Emmerich, “Moonfall,” out Feb. 4. The artist’s father, Harald Kloser, is credited as a writer and producer and for the music in the film. The tune is a sleek synth-pop jam made with Swedish songwriter and producer Elvira Anderfjärd (Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Tove Lo). After debuting in 2018, Kloser has released a handful of singles, including 2020’s “Secret Love” and last year’s “Stuck.”

MAGIC GIANT, “My My”

Preternaturally upbeat L.A. trio Magic Giant are back with their first single since 2020’s “Outta My Head.” It’s got a typically juiced Magic Giant chorus — this of the shout-along variety — to accent its theme of going bold through life, embodied in the lyric “I’m running naked through a gunfight.” Says the band’s violinist, Zambricki Li: “The inspiration behind the lyric comes from the Janis Joplin tune where she sings, ‘Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.’ It’s really a blunderbuss buster anthem about that feeling when you first think you’re an alien, an outcast alone, and then you suddenly realize the power of that. You are free. You have no country to champion, you must champion … yourself.” Magic Giant has a new EP in the works, and its Feb. 18 release show at the Peppermint Club is sold out.

SLEEPTALK, “It’s Alright (Just Complicated)”

“It’s Alright (Just Complicated)” is the title track to Sleeptalk’s new three-song EP, out this week and including the 2021 singles “Ultra Normal” and “Fix You (Like That Coldplay Song).” The L.A. quintet has spent the pandemic working on their second full-length — and in singer Anthony Fitzpatrick’s case, doing some soul-searching. Less glossy than much of Sleeptalk’s catalog, the new single muses on an emotional milestone of young adulthood: how old friendships slowly dissolve and fade away. The new video for the song (filmed and edited by Manny Zepeda at Transplants Brewing in Palmdale) just premiered: