Stream: Audacity, ‘Umbrellas’
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Fullerton rockers Audacity unveil the second single from their fourth album, “Hyper Vessels,” which will be released April 1.
Stream: The Electric West, ‘Death Birds’
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The gloriously gloomy new single from the Electric West, their first new music since last March’s “Verdugo,” follows what they call “a tumultuous year for the band.”
Stream: VUM, ‘New Girls’
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Noir-pop trio VUM returns with a new album this year called “Cryptocrystalline.” The latest single is about escaping life by hitting the dancefloor.
Premiere: Lady Low, ‘You & I’
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Cue the strings: Lady Low’s debut album “And They Say Romance Is Dead” is out Friday . File under sweeping love songs for chaperoned slow dances.
Stream: Mayer Hawthorne, ‘Love Like That’
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Mayer Hawthorne’s first solo album since 2013 is titled “Man About Town.” It’s out April 8 and includes the single “Love Like That.”
Premiere: Marjorie Fair, ‘Songbird’
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More than a decade after their debut for Capitol Records, Marjorie Fair returns with a second album, “I Am My Own Rainbow.”
Ears Wide Open: TUFT
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Formerly known as Hi Ho Silver Oh, L.A. trio TUFT will release their debut album “Look Look” in April.
Stream: Fatal Jamz, ‘Jean Paul Gaultier’
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Lolipop Records just released an EP called “Obsession” by glam-pop musician Marion Belle, better known as Fatal Jamz. A full-length album will follow this spring.
Premiere: La Lenguas, ‘Broken-Heart Disease’
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Feeling low? Get high. The new single from garage-poppers La Lenguas fesses up to how Christopher Stoudt is anesthetizing his pain.
Ears Wide Open: Crescendo
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Los Angeles shoegazers Crescendo release their sophomore album “Unless” on Friday. It feels like a half-hour dream sequence.
