Anyone who grew up on a steady diet of Sarah and Kindercore releases will find something to like in the Brunettes, a too-cute-for-their-own-good New Zealand band whose star is slowly but surely rising. The band knows it, too—at Thursday’s Rilo Kiley show, for which they played an opening set, members of the touring five-piece came out to sign albums and EPs, many of which were undoubtedly purchased five feet away at the merch table.

Most of the time, the Brunettes stick to an easy-going, breezy approach; nothing too fast, nothing too substantial. The most urgent song on Mars Loves Venus, “Best Friend Envy,” stands out in sharp relief to the other tracks; generally the songs sound a lot like “These Things Take Time,” with the light touch on the piano, the Calvin Johnson-esque vocals of Jonathan Bree and Heather Mansfield’s girlish “yeah, whatever.”