Video: De Lux, ‘New Summers’

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The title of De Lux’s fourth album asks the question, “Do You Need a Release?” Why, yes, thanks.

The L.A. duo of Sean Guerin and Isaac Franco have been dancing through life — existential crises, neuroses, the passage of time, slights real and perceived — for a decade now, fusing 21st century dance-punk with vintage disco and new wave. Pure escapism it’s not; wry, ironic, often biting and peppered with choice metaphors (crepes come to mind) it is.

Guerin and Franco — now backed by their live band in studio rather than doing almost all of the playing themselves — today announced the Sept. 23 arrival of new album, out via Innovative Leisure. It incorporates the three songs released on 2021’s “Uneven” EP and a new single, out today, “New Summers.”

The latter sounds footloose and carefree, but behind that facade are some discomfiting feelings. “‘New Summers refers to a life change,” Guerin says. “The post effects of a childhood home being sold. [Also the topic of “875 Dollars” from De Lux’s 2018 album “More Disco Songs About Love.”] There was a distinct nostalgic feeling with this home in the summer. Swimming, family gatherings, ice cream trucks, hot concrete and skating. With the house gone, ‘New Summers’ music paints the picture of the vibrant summers that once were, but the lyrics highlight the darker and sadder tones of having to accept the loss and fading of old times.”

The video for the song stars Garth Wynne-Jones and Julian Grant and was co-directed by William Sipos and Sean Campos. Speaking of discomfiting.

||| Watch: The video for “New Summers”

||| Live: De Lux plays a free show at One Colorado Summer Concerts on Aug. 6. Info.

||| Previously: “On and On (Til the End of Us),” “More Disco Songs About Love” / interview, “Keyboards Cause We’re Black and White,” “875 Dollars,” “Oh Man the Future,” “Someday Now,” “Make Space,” “Better at Making Time”