Kevin Bronson on October 13th, 2022

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Good things, coming in threes: Check out new singles from Local Natives, Weyes Blood and Drugdealer …

LOCAL NATIVES, “Just Before the Morning”

This week’s dose of heavenly harmonizing comes courtesy of the venerable indie quintet Local Natives, who may or may not be working on their fifth album, the follow-up to 2019’s “Violet Skies.” “Just Before the Morning” is about as straightforward-pretty as it gets, a song that, the band says, “came from a burst of creativity after we finally reconnected in the studio. The song explores the cyclical nature of life and the many ways in which we begin again.” The single follows the July release of “Desert Snow” and “Hourglass” and arrived with the news that Local Natives will do two nights of re-imagined favorites, deep cuts and new music on Nov. 14, Nov. 15 and Nov. 16 at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever.

WEYES BLOOD, “Grapevine”

The follow-up to “It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody,” “Grapevine” is the second single from Weyes Blood’s fifth album, “And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow,” out Nov. 18. Named for the stretch of I-5 north of Los Angeles, the song is a richly detailed remembrance of a person and a place: the crime of heartbreak and the scene of it, if you will. Songwriter Natalie Mering says of the tune: “Technology is harvesting our attention away from each other. We all have a ‘Grapevine’ entwined around our past with unresolved wounds and pain. Being in love doesn’t necessarily mean being together. Why else do so many love songs yearn for a connection?” Both of Weyes Blood’s local shows, Dec. 8 and 9 at the Theatre at Ace Hotel, are sold out.

DRUGDEALER, “Pictures of You”

Michael Collins lays out yet another intoxicating, ’70s-style groove in the new Drugdealer single, “Pictures of You.” And guest vocalist Kate Bollinger’s lilting vocals live in it. Just tie-dye us up. The song, the follow-up to “Someone to Love” and “Madison,” is the latest from the new Drugdealer album, “Hiding in Plain Sight,” out Oct. 28. Of the collaboration, Collins says: “I was on the East Coast visiting my parents when my publisher suggested a possible writing session with Kate. I had been itching to ride a freight train since the beginning of the pandemic so I used the opportunity to do so from Baltimore down to Richmond. When I got there, we became friends really quickly and ended up writing this song at Spacebomb Studios. The whole experience was really spur of the moment and organic.” Drugdealer plays the Lodge Room on Dec. 9. As for Bollinger, the Richmond, Va., singer-songwriter released an EP, “Look at it in the Light,” earlier this year and plays a sold-out show at the Echo on Oct. 19.

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