By Liz Hammond, Asst. Living and Arts Editor
Looking for new music to listen to when you’re dying in the library?
Look no further than LANY. Fronted by Paul Klein, they are the perfect L.A.-based alternative rock band. They have released three new singles from their upcoming album “Malibu Nights,” which follows their self-titled record from 2017.
This band is still under the radar, but not for long. Three of their singles have blown up, especially the first single: “Thru These Tears.”
If any of you know singer-songwriter Dua Lipa, which you all should, because she’s an icon, she is the former girlfriend of Klein.
In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar, Klein said: “I never felt a pain like that. I’m not trying to be dramatic here. I think that was the first time I’ve ever been in love and I never felt anything like that in my life.”
After just one listen to “Thru These Tears,” you are automatically thrown into in the heart-wrenching feeling of your worst breakup.
We have all had these small moments of trying to make sense of it all.
Klein sings, “Control my thoughts/Convincing myself it’s your loss/I really mean it/And I’m starting to believe it.” The entire song flows off of the tip of the tongue and into a sweet melody that’ll have you dancing around your room trying to convince yourself that soon enough, it’ll be okay.
The chorus of the song is one of the best that Klein has ever written: it’s brutally honest.
The song ends with Klein giving you the truth of what this breakup did to him: “Driving home on an empty highway/I thought about you and I hit the brakes/What we had and who we were was so clear/But right now I can’t see nothing through these tears.”
The heartbreak doesn’t stop with this song, though. Their next single, “I Don’t Wanna Love You Anymore,” appropriately titled, goes deeper into Klein’s conscious.
He really makes sure to take you on the journey of his own mind, singing, “Sick of staring up at the ceiling/ How’d you change your mind just like that?/The only way to get past this feeling/Is to tell myself you’re not coming back.” His singing is backed by their classic use of pop synth and piano chords. He takes no time trying to hide his feelings.
The chorus is him singing, “I don’t wanna love you anymore/I don’t wanna love you anymore/From the start, I never thought, I’d say this before/But I don’t wanna love you anymore.”
Everyone can relate to that feeling of breaking up with your first love and trying to convince yourself over and over again that you don’t want that anymore.
That you deserve better than that and that’s what makes this song so beautiful.
Their latest single, “Thick And Thin,” is one of the most wonderfully crafted pieces of pop music that I have ever heard in my life.
Klein’s lyricism is something unmatched, but it’s the melodies and synth that they pair it with make it so hauntingly beautiful.
But unlike the other songs, Klein sounds the most hopeful for his own recovery in “Thick and Thin.”
In the chorus Klein sings, “You say you’re not in love no more/But was it really love/If you can leave me for/ Something so innocent/Is this the end?/Thought you’d be there through thick and thin.”
This is the first time you hear him admit that maybe it wasn’t love after all. These three singles perfectly paint the picture of what to expect from them.
I’ll be waiting with anticipation until Oct. 5, when LANY finally releases the album in entirety.