So much of our music taste as we grow older is build upon the foundations laid by the music of our youth. Though we may still occasionally sample things that are new and outside our comfort zone, for the most part we don’t tend to stray too far from what we already know and love. ‘Bee Stings’, the latest single from LA band Marni, feels like the mean average of every song I obsessed over as a teenager. The first taster of the band’s new EP due later this year, its slacker rock vibes adorned with a sprinkling of impassioned emo are a textbook example of a musical vision being fully and exquisitely realised. The way its brooding shoegaze soundscapes give way to the ferocious roar of garage rock distortion, like a crocodile lunging out of the eddying murk of a river’s edge. In another life this beauty would have had pride of place in every last angsty teenage playlist I ever made. Better late than never I suppose.