Seattle-based trio Secret Superpower sparkle and fizz with post-wave ice cream pop made from syrupy vocal harmonies, lush guitar lines and disco ballistic fantasies served with a side of tart truth. Their debut EP What Kind of Dream is a sugar charged avalanche of energy and fiercely indicting lyrics (“you better rethink your bullshit lifestyle”) delivered with a bubblegum kiss on the cheek. With nods to Siouxsie, the Bunneymen, and contemporary garage punk, Secret Superpower deliver a sound familiar, strange, and sweetly devastating. Existing on a plane between cheerful optimism and stark reality, their infectious melodies leave audiences swooning and humming along under the neon. Like a venus fly trap both oddly enchanting, and deceptively deadly; What Kind of Dream harnesses that same incongruous power to slay.

• Available on black cassette tapes