Coma Girls perform at The Echoplex in Los Angeles on Sept. 18, 2022. Chas Alm/STAFF.

LOS ANGELES — Coma Girls played at the Echoplex Sunday night as part of its Grand Ole Echo series, and also as an album release celebration for No Umbrella for Star Flower. It was their first show in three years, and frontman Chris Spino’s first show since getting sober.

If Spino felt any pressure in that regard, he didn’t show it. Dressed simply in a white shirt and white hat, he marveled at being on the Echoplex stage after his years as a bartender there.

“I used to work here,” he told the audience. “And now I’m getting to play here, this is really cool.”

Spino and Christian Paul Phillipi were joined by Dan Gee on keyboard, Marvin Figueroa on bass, Doron Zounes on guitar and Travis Popichak on drums. The full lineup and additional guitarists gave Spino’s emotional songs extra heft. The set was a mix of songs from his new album (the album was a solo project) and 2021 EP Skyboxer. Zounes had a dreamy, Chris-Isaak-like tone on his Epiphone Casino, while Phillipi (who produced No Umbrella) brought a Beatlesque jangle with a Rickenbacker 330.

Coma Girls perform at The Echoplex in Los Angeles on Sept. 18, 2022.

For the first half of the set, Spino played acoustic guitar and leaned into the plaintive Americana sound that Coma Girls does so well. The band started off with “Pasadena,” which was particularly poignant with lyrics about Spino leaving his home in Atlanta to move to California. They followed with “Famous,” which was reminiscent of Elliott Smith, and “Rear-View Mirrors,” which had a definite Cure vibe.

After “33,” the band played “Wedding Roses,” perhaps a little faster than on the record. This song was clearly a local favorite, perhaps because of the “L.A. Dodger” reference in the lyrics. For the second half of the set, Spino played an electric white Italia Rimini and ripped into material like “Skyboxer” and “Jaded.” The band ended with an extended jam on recent single “Knife.”

The only thing that could have improved the show would have been the melancholy pedal steel of Connor “Catfish” Gallaher, who appears on the record. Now that he’s clear-eyed and focused, Spino showed he’s a musical force to be reckoned with, and Coma Girls demonstrated why they are a band to watch.

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