Kevin Bronson on April 26th, 2018

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First impression of the new L.A. quintet TAMPA? Band You’d Most Want to Play Hooky From School With.

In director Adam Grabarnick’s video for their first single “Teen Age,” the guys can be found playing baseball in Glassell Park, hanging out at Mariachi Plaza and disappearing into the Metro, among other L.A. locales. They are having a grand time, and that’s before the guitar part kicks in about the 1:30 mark.

The song has a great-day-in-L.A. feel as well, mixing some Latin flourishes and punk into a ’70s-styled rocker that longs for the carefree days of youth (replacing that era’s bubblegum with today’s can of beer, of course). For the video, “we grabbed a DV and a VHS camera and hung out all day,” says singer Lucas Field, who is joined in the band by Jon Pancoast, Jeff Kite, Emeen Zarookian and John Nixon. “We played some baseball. Stopped for tacos. But we also wanted to include all the cool, colorful murals that are so unique to LA, especially around Mariachi Plaza.”

“Teen Age” is spring fever, set to guitar … and if you don’t mind we’re taking the rest of the afternoon off.

||| Watch: The video for “Teen Age”