Quit Your Day Job: Pretty & Nice

The Boston trio Pretty & Nice construct pop spectacles with guitars, drums, and various electronics. You could mention of Montreal in passing on "Piranha" or "Peekaboo," etc., but more interestingly, think of bands they themselves list as influences like Braniac (a sunnier take on them, but the structural shifts are there), Ex Models, Q & Not U and to go elsewhere: Squeeze, the Jam, the English Beat, etc. Get Young, their second full-length and Hardly Art debut, came out this fall. The guys are ...

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