Dear Boy are back with new single “Kelly Green,” the track is off the band’s forthcoming album, out later this year via Last Gang Records “Kelly Green is about a deep breath, the band explains, the one you take before your life changes. Before you tell someone how you really feel… and how there’s a part of you that never wants that moment to end.” The LP was written in just twelve sessions and recorded live in under two weeks with producer Aron Kobayashi Ritch (Momma, Been Stellar, Snail Mail).

The band includes Ben Grey (lead vocals, guitar), Keith Cooper (drums), Austin Hayman (lead guitar), and Lucy Lawrence (bass, vocals). “We wanted to write songs in the way only best friends can,” Grey explains. “To craft a rock album in 2025 that doesn’t sound like all the ones that came before is almost impossible. It only works if the band feels it. And has something new to say.”

The Los Angeles band has an affinity for ‘80s and ’90s Britpop and shoegaze, citing influences from Pulp and Oasis to Slowdive and Jesus and Mary Chain, while equally inspired by Pixies, and R.E.M. “This isn’t a nostalgia trip kinda thing. We don’t claim any of these genres. We’re our own universe. Dear Boy is proudly an LA band and is completely uninterested in going backward. Rock music needs to be invested in the times in which it’s made. And more than anything, it needs to be exciting.”

This Los Angeles perspective proves crucial to their sound. “Los Angeles has had a major influence on our work,” the band notes. “One of the most misunderstood cities in the world, nobody realizes what a strong community it is. Its diversity is its strength. What makes it beautiful. Culture, perspective, art. We’re all challenging and inspiring one another every single day. And after all we’ve been through, LA is making the best guitar music in twenty years.”

“We made this album to remember why we do this in the first place,” Dear Boy concludes. “Because we love it. We adore each other. Joy. Connection. Heartbreak. Celebration. We’re not interested in anything other than that.”

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