There are few things in life that can’t be made better with the judicious application of vintage keyboards. Case in point: this charming little ditty from a trio of women and a guy called Slow Down Tallahassee. It’s pretty much a revival of the grungier, garage side of the 60s girl groups—maybe a trashier, fuzzier version of everyone’s favourite 60s girl-group revivalists, the Pipettes, but with a drum machine. So basically the aesthetic of the 60s, filtered through the sounds of the 80s, and played in the 2000s. (Memo to newspaper editors: have you kids finally come up with a better name for this decade than the “oughties”?) Another way to put it would simply be this: remember the Rondelles? They were a fun indie pop band from the mid-90s that produced nothing but awesome lo-fi garage pop gems until they imploded earlier this decade. Well, think of this as the second coming.

You can pick up a limited-edition CD version of their EP from Cloudberry Records in Florida, but it turns out the band’s actually from Sheffield—that’s right, the home islands. Which brings up another interesting point: what’s with Britain nicking all the Motown and soul influences and outdoing the Americans in the revival sweepstakes? Between the Pipettes, Lucky Soul and now Slow Down Tallahassee, the Brits seem to have this market all locked up.

Or do they? Tune in next time as I cynically attempt to stretch my limited library of new music beyond the breaking point!