Please meet UK four-piece Electric Pets, who may well become new indie darlings now their four-track debut Rhinoceros EP is released. Their name and cover art already reveals this is a band that gives well-known images and music from the past an electrifying modern jacket. Emma Buckley (vocals), Phil Wagg (guitars), Pete Darrington (bass) and Adam Grace (drums) forge influences from bluesy garage rock and folky indie pop, 60’s surf and girl groups, soul and electronica, into a post-rock sound that is made for 2022. The musicians claim to be a sleazy dive-bar band, but with that they do themselves short, because these songs – idiosyncratic but appealing, both hard and soft, versatile but unambiguous – are simply too good.
Rhinoceros EP is out now digitally and on CD through Reckless Yes. Add to wantlist: Bandcamp