Since releasing their first single at 16, north Londoners Poppy Hankin, Iris McConnell and Sophie Moss have spent three years crafting a teenage music very different from pop’s standard sexy ebullience. The influence of shambly 1990s indie such as Pavement and, most obviously, Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci is clear on their winningly gauche debut, but it stands in a longer line of British faux-naifs stretching back through Postcard Records and the Raincoats. Stupid Things, with its bewildered close harmonies and rinkydink piano, is the standout, but there’s charm galore here, from Just Like That’s softly unfurling doowop coda to Don’t Go Back at Ten’s 80s keys and gently psychy groove.
