Smokescreens

L.A. indie pop group Smokescreens are deeply indebted to the jangly guitar pop of early Flying Nun and the noisy rush of C-86-style indie pop, with a little punk energy thrown in for good measure on their early records. By the time of 2020's A Strange Dream, they had added a gentler, more thoughtful strand to their sound and managed to get the Clean's David Kilgour to produce. Corey Cunningham and Chris Rosi met and became friends in 2011 when their bands, Terry Malts and Plateaus respectively, were on tour together. By 2015, when they both found themselves living in Los Ang...