Nearly three years have passed since the release of Lavalove’s debut LP Love Sick, but the Los Angeles-based rockers have lost none of their enthusiasm, on the contrary. Their sophomore album Tan Lines plays like a sun-faded Polaroid you can’t stop flipping over. The ten fresh tunes are louder, looser, and built for sticky dance floors and early beach mornings.

In these songs, love is messy, obsessive, and often short-lived, swinging between infatuation, paranoia, power plays, and the thrill of being someone’s favorite mistake. Underneath the late nights and reckless highs, there’s a constant push for freedom and self-definition, chasing connection and escape while refusing to be pinned down by jobs, expectations, or anyone else’s rules.

The mix of surfy garage-rock and bubblegum pink pop-punk is messy but tantalizing, a fun and summery soundtrack for getting out.

Tan Lines—produced by Anton DeLost—is out now digitally, on CD and vinyl LP, through Pure Noise Records.

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