This EP came out in March but just crossed my radar last week, and it’s one of the most eclectic things I’ve heard this year.

These songs are all earworms – often using playground rhymes or handclaps to fill out otherwise sparse arrangements. Blown-out and distorted instrumentations matched with simple and repeated melodies sometimes remind me of a new take on the Sleigh Bells sound. Good luck getting this out of your head:

In a lot of interviews and press coverage, singer Taylor Pollack mentions how social anxiety is a common creative theme throughout the music. This is the song that first made a splash for them, and Pollack has a fantastic stage presence. You can’t take your eyes off her. It’s awesome and inspiring and couldn’t have come easy. The quote in the title is from this interview, about this song:

The song that fully sold me on the record is called Something in the Rain, it sounds like a lounge-y ballad, building to a grungy hypnotic noisefest at the end. The video takes it even farther:

It’s very difficult to pick songs that showcase the band’s style. While every song shares certain characteristics, they all have drastically different arrangements and approaches. It makes for an exciting listen. This interview asks about their plans for 2024:

 To write a song that smells like campfire smoke burrowed into your hoodie, shines like sodium lamps at 5am, tastes like petrol station coffee, and feels like laying on a concrete sidewalk while dew forms on the grass.

Sounds good to me. They’re playing a lot around London these days, and I’ll be watching for more live performances on YouTube.

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