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Listen to Blonder's "In and Out" and Feel Free, Feel Fine

This is like totally Seth Cohen you guys.

If The OC were on the air now, "In and Out"—the infectious new single from Brooklyn indie pop outfit Blonder—would be blasting as Seth Cohen longboards around Newport pining after Summer Roberts. Premiering below, this wistful yet upbeat ode to a love that could (or could not) be, is laden with little hooks—triple claps, oh-oh-oh's—and frontman Constantine Anastasakis's breezy vocals. His rumination on the topic ("Forever doesn't take that long at all / We could try and fight the pills or we could just fall") feel bright and press repeat listenable. (Think "Middle of Nowhere"-circa Hot Hot Heat, or a high def Broncho.) The band's first two singles, "Talk to Me" and "Lean"—the latter of which has garnered over two million streams on Spotify—have a similar beachy appeal. Meanwhile Anastaksaki's live band consists of players from included Tei Shi, WET, and Guards.

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"The whole theme of the song is about how [being involved with someone] can mean everything," Anastasakis explains, "but that it doesn't necessarily have to. The verses were basically about talking to someone you're attracted to for the first time, and the potential that maybe you could fall in love… but it's kind of like a lament that maybe you wouldn't. The transient side of loving someone was on my mind. Hopefully the music feels like it did when [that situation] was all happening to me, with all the chaos and excitement of those emotions."

Listen below.