Deers, Boston Music Room

Since mid-2014, a group of Spanish girls have been making waves on indie blogs across Europe. Ever since Deers released two singles onto Soundcloud with little in the way of fanfare or promotion, their star has been on the rise thanks to a blend of endearing enthusiasm and a charmingly lo-fi sound.
Charming, some might say, is the right word to use if you like your music to sound like teenagers recording themselves shouting into an iPhone. Deers' whole schtick thus far is that they sound something like every teenage garage rock band does the first time they commit something to tape – flaky, grainy, unmixed and unpolished – but what they really do have that a lot of others don't, in that situation, is an ear for a good tune behind all that fuzz.
Listen to Trippy Gum and others from their just-released and appropriately-titled Demo and you can begin to see that underneath the amateurish, DIY appearance the girls behind Deers, Ana Garcia Perrote and Carlotta Cosials (although the two-piece becomes four for live shows), have an ear for that classic C86-era sound, all jangling guitars shuffling back and forth under wistful, repetitive vocal melodies. These aren't complex songs, and – much like some of the sounds they hark back to – you begin to get the impression that if they were to be polished, mixed, levelled and studio-recorded, there might not be a lot left to like; a substantial part of Deers' charm certainly lies in this raw, unfiltered, at times discordant melange.
All of which is probably akin to saying that in the backroom of a dingy boozer in North London, they might just sound absolutely great - and for less than a tenner, it's certainly worth finding out.