Kevin Bronson on July 7th, 2011

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In an era scores of indie artists are making music so pretty it hurts, LA Font is managing to churn out tunes so hurtful they’re pretty. Everything about the Los Angeles quartet’s new single “Sharks” has sharp edges – the stinging licks from diminutive guitarist Jon Perry, the stinging rebukes from frontman Danny Bobbe (who always seems to have some) about, in this case, “making excuses that sound hollow, then trying to explain the excuses better, which makes them sound more hollow,” he says. Blame it on the sharks. Or the tide. LA Font manages to embody the rock-’em-sock-’em indie of deities like Sonic Youth and Pavement and crackling wit of Cracker. Flame on.

||| Download: “Sharks”

||| Live: LA Font has the Monday residency this month at the Silverlake Lounge, and next week celebrate the release of the “Sharks” 7-inch, with the Ross Sea Party and Queen Kwong opening.

||| Also: Rawkblog has the premiere of the B-side, “Lipsmack.”