To paraphrase an old saying, sometimes you get the retro and sometimes the retro gets you. Well, it would seem that the retro got to Slowdim – they hail from Boston, by the way – and, given the evidence of their "Spirals" EP, drove them onwards and upwards to write modern day equivalents of pure pop songs.
As with all pop songs, the emotional bounce between happy and sad permeates this EP with the melancholy of late period Beatles to be found in "Winter's Gun" while the altogether more jolly "Tallest Trees" draws more from bands like The Seeds. I don't mean to suggest that Slowdim are mere revivalists for they are more than that (and more than likely too young as well) and they provide too much proof here of solid, and commercial, song writing ability.
I suppose what I am saying is that, in a different time and place, Slowdim would be huge. As it is, the modern day music business has absolutely no respect for the kind of talent that Slowdim quite clearly have.