LA’s Tashaki Miyaki have produced one of our favourite EPs of the year in this, their debut self-titled effort. Their brand of fuzzy Jesus and Mary Chain style gloom-core makes us want to release a frothy mouthed joyous scream – but obviously we keep it bottled up tightly inside, as any outward elation would be at odds with the music’s introspective mood.

It’s not often you can find a band who take a song title Happiness and turn it into a shoe-staring, blue-souled, fuzz-fuelled moment of self-examination. The lyrics “Let’s stay out and watch the sun/We won’t always be this young/Will it always be this fun” seem beautifully at odds with the slow-handed buzz of the guitar.

This is the case throughout the four song EP, where the sweet Kim Deal-style vocals hold a candle to the dark undertones of the musical backdrop, creating a contrast most bands can only dream of. This culminates in closing track Get it Right, which sounds like the ominous throb you get in your stomach and ears when you know you’ve done something wrong that will inevitably cause you sadness sometime down the line.

Tashaki Miyaki’s self-titled EP is out on October 31 and you can listen to a track from it, Somethin’ is Better than Nothin’, below.