If you’re not on the Dressy Bessy bandwagon, man, you’re missing out of some of the greatest summer pop records ever made.

Well, okay, maybe not best ever. Like I’m qualified to tell you so. But they’re some of the best summer songs I’ve ever heard: sugar-sweet with enough of a kick to leave an aftertaste. This is an effect the Denver band have been trying to perfect for years; anyone who remembers their Pink Hearts Yellow Moons era knows how twee they once were—almost painfully so, depending on your tastes. As is usually the case, they rocked your socks off live, and in an effort to reproduce that sound, Dressy Bessy have steadily turned up the distortion and volume on their guitar amps.

When it came out, Sound Go Round was hailed as a taste of the live Dressy Bessy that could be cute and rock out too, as opposed to the Dressy Bessy that held sockhops in the living room every Saturday night. Listening to songs like “That’s Why,” that album’s first single, alongside newer tracks like “Girl, You Shout!” show how much further Dressy Bessy have come since that album.

Just as energetic as much of the best material on Sound Go Round, “Girl, You Shout!” throws away most of the keyboards and other instrumentation in favour of a straightforward guitar-bass-drums attack. It’s still pop confectionary, but it’s the closest yet Dressy Bessy have come to blowing the doors off. The question, of course, is what the band will do for its next album, which they’re currently writing songs for.