Kevin Bronson on July 31st, 2014

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L.A. quartet Mirror Talk bum-rushes the 1980s with a funky tint; the quartet first came on our radar with last November’s EP titled “Infatuation,” which probably should have been plural. The band – Court Alexander, Steven Lopez, Sean Krell and Dave Lewis – articulate their infatuations with New Wave, dance-floor-ready R&B and keening synths, wrapping it all in a glossy, updated-for-2014 package. With their first EP just getting a vinyl release via Urban Outfitters, the quartet has resumed making new music with producer Tony Hoffer. The single “1997,” the title track to their forthcoming EP, is kinda-sorta-maybe appropriately star-dated – its sound is, after all, somewhere between 1984 and “1999.”

||| Stream: “1997”

||| Live: Mirror Talk plays the Satellite on Saturday night, supported by J. Laser.

||| Previously: “Don’t”