Ultra Lights prove Pleasure’s All Yours by making garage rock sound newly stupid-smart

Ultra Lights get the Band To Watch treatment on 19 June, and Pleasure’s All Yours sounds like one of those debut albums that makes everyone’s career anxiety look a little silly. Built around John Robinson and Leela Hoehn, the Atlanta project reportedly turns existential frustration into sharp, compulsive garage rock, with references floating between Pavement, The Strokes, the Velvet Underground and Australian garage-punk electricity. The good joke is that Robinson felt washed up after seeing a younger band tear it up, then processed that despair by writing another banger. That is basically indie rock therapy with better drums. Pleasure’s All Yours appears to be clean on concept and dirty in execution: no frills, strong hooks, fuzzy edges and lyrics about the modern impossibility of ever feeling good enough. Conveniently, the songs seem to be more than good enough.

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