Fountains of Wayne, “Someone’s Gonna Break Your Heart” and “Richie and Ruben”

Fountains of Wayne, a band I’ve followed slavishly from their earliest days, has signed to the Yep Roc label and has a full album due later this summer. A single’s been released on iTunes and elsewhere. For better or worse, it’s classic FoW: the matter-of-fact false-confident-sensitive-guy advisory “Someone’s Gonna Break Your Heart and the character study “Richie and Ruben” (about pesky guys with big ideas who blow through their patron’s investments). The production is on the same pure-pop level the band has maintained since “Radiation Vibe” a decade and a half ago. “Someone’s” has the big choral doo-doo-doos while “R&R” has the patented laidback Fountains jangle. Expectations run high for the full album, the band’s first in a few years and one which should find them out of the shadow of their freak video-fueled mainstream hit “Stacy’s Mom.”