I met Milo Greene through the song “Autumn Tree,” an acoustic and underwater flow of pretty vocals and folky instruments. So imagine my surprise with “White Lies”—punchy, with a quick pop energy, the Los Angeles band’s new single sounds like a ’90s dance number. Marlana Sheetz, the female voice of the quartet, leads the track. The lyrics are so quick—verses flowing into chorus with hardly a pause—that it’s easy to miss the indignant words (“I’m done trying / to convince you I’m worth holding on”). “White Lies” follows a story we all know; whatever is left of love is sustained by lies. Yet it doesn’t mope in its solemn subject matter. “Lies” rattles on with a heavy range of percussive noises. What sounds like a bongo drum floats throughout, accompanied by the clap of club beats and occasional electric guitar plucks. With what seems like new pain to share, Milo Greene has departed from “What’s the Matter.”

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Lexy Brodt is a student at UW-Madison currently majoring in economics, potentially double majoring in journalism. She spends most of her time watching episodes of Broad City over root beer floats and reading in bed.