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Seasons EP Release for “Autumn” EP

Seasons || LISTEN || WATCH
The band: Seasons, an L.A. quintet.

The sound: On fresh material such as “Light, Lost” and “Of Our Discontent,” Seasons crafts airy, spacious guitar rock. With local producer Raymond Richards on the boards (Local Natives), the group’s latest EP is full of polished touches. This Highland Park based band plays a tender yet voluminous brand of indie rock, combining winding guitar riffs and Colin Meloy-esque vocals with a veritable forest of carefully arranged flourishes. The synthesizers, keyboards, percussion, and violin never overpower the basic emotional appeal that runs throughout the newest EP instead serving to create a sweetly melancholy atmosphere in which you can easily float away.

The random: For their “Of Our Discontent” video, the band nabbed actress Mahaley Manning, best known for mean-girling poor Emma Stone in “Easy A.”

The details: Seasons music is available now digitally on Bandcamp. The band will release their new EP “Autumn” on Overhead Records January 2nd at The Echo where they will also host a residency there for that month. Each week in January the band will be playing a different EP in its entirety along with transforming the venue each week to fit the climate and mood of each album. – LA TIMES

One Trick Pony || Listen || Watch
It’s almost a little ridiculous when you find five tracks all competing equally for “favorite song on the album” status — but One Trick Pony (once self-described as “dynamic mope rock”) produces this kind of positive indecision with their latest, Try Not to Worry so Much. Opening tracks “Knives so Sharp” and “Get Over Yourself” hook from the start, while songs “Diagonal Waves” and “Crepe Hangers” break your heart in the most upbeat possible way and “Andrew Jackson” is worth the trip for its chorus alone. With this new album, One Trick Pony have delivered a recorded release as impressive and varied as their fantastic live act.Radio Free Silverlake

Count Fleet || Listen || Watch
You’d think the hills of Silver Lake and Echo Park were Appalachia judging from the amount of big-hearted folk music coming from the scene. The tunes of Count Fleet are exemplary — earnest and winsome, they feel like a hedge against high-tech city life, illusory social media friendships and button-pushing marketing campaigns. The duo of Elliot Glass and Caitlin Dwyer are following up their February EP — made with the help of a lot of familiar faces from the Eastside, including members (or ex-members) of the Belle Brigade, the Henry Clay People, the Parson Red Heads and Races — with the 7-inch single “Stay Here.” Like the EP, it was produced by Raymond Richards (who, by the way, is marking the 10-year anniversary of his Red Rockets Glare studio), with whom Glass and Dwyer are working on a full-length. Jangle away.Buzz Bands

Torches || LISTEN || WATCH
Psychedelia is often paired with a slow haziness or fervent rock rhythms that jam to no end, but it’s nice to hear that the genre can also intertwine with delicate melancholy that pleasantly lingers somewhere in the middle. Azad Cheikosman, Bridgette Moody and Eric Fabbro of L.A. band Torches in Trees manage to perform the latter quite beautifully. Balancing the softer elements of dream-pop through dueling melodies that still tell the same story and the subtle unfurling of bold features such as elaborate drumming and driving guitar riffs, Torches in Trees have released two well-received EPs the past years. Their latest Raymond Richards-produced 7-inch, which features “Our Daughters” as the B-side, is another slice of enchanting songwriting that’s only matured and intensified our swooning.Buzz Bands