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: Abadabad
Based: Boston, MA
Listen: soundcloud.com/abadabad
Similar to: Beach pop at its ‘surfs at the ready’ best.

Around this time last year, Jeremy Lee Given (aka Abadabad) got bloggers all excited with a handful of seemingly simple, sundrenched pop songs. The now four-piece - named after mishearing the Pakistani city of Abbottabad on TV - are back with a debut EP release.

Included in various ‘ones to watch’ lists for 2012, it seems those lofty predictions are not far off the money. And you have to hand it to them, the Boston via Brooklyn band certainly know how to produce some seriously infectious melodies. At best Abadabad are undeniably perfect for lounging in the sun. Their effortless sound oozes a certain lo-fi, vintage feel (Given also likes to record audio onto VHS tape), take the brilliant titled ‘All The Bros Say’ as an example.

‘The Wild’ EP is released next month, and - as the band themselves proclaim - they could well be ‘the best new band for the next five summers’. Don’t you dare put those shades in the bottom drawer of your wardrobe just yet.