Kevin Bronson on September 18th, 2014

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Y’all know Jacob Dillan Summers by now, right? The former Marine drumline drummer with the stripes tattooed on his biceps? The Alaska native who played around Silver Lake and Echo Park for several years with several bands? The songwriter who, as if by magic, appeared at Raymond Richards’ Red Rockets Glare studio in 2011 with a batch of sweet guitar pop songs that gave his producer goosebumps? Whose band Avid Dancer has been playing those songs to great acclaim over the past year after “Stop Playing With My Heart” was released? Yeah, that guy. It’s taken a minute, but Avid Dancer announced this week that its debut EP “I Want to See You Dance” would be out Oct. 21 via Grand Jury Music. The title track ratchets up the energy, compared to the serene balladry of “Stop Playing,” drawing from the same ’60s psych-pop well as the Dandy Warhols, as Noisey pointed out when it premiered the track yesterday. There’s even more power in Avid Dancer’s power-pop arsenal; it’s a reason to look forward to 2015.

||| Stream: “I Want to See You Dance”

||| Live: Avid Dancer opens for the Kopecky Family Band on Friday at the Troubadour, opens for Warpaint on Nov. 7 at the Echoplex and opens for Cold War Kids on Nov. 18 at the Observatory.

Photo by Carl Pocket, courtesy of the Echo