Rising Brooklyn-based indie outfit Diary — Kevin Bendis (vocals, keys), Chris Croarkin (guitar, vocals), High Waisted‘s Jessica Louise Dye (guitar, vocals), Two Man Giant Squid‘s Yan Kogan (bass) and Adam Sachs (drums) — can trace their origins to a shared love of jangle-pop, shoegaze, dream pop and psychedelia.

The Brooklyn-based band is keeping the momentum going after touring to support their well-received Kanine Records debut, The Cutting Garden EP with their recently released follow-up Speedboat EP.

“Loosely inspired by Renata Adler’s novel of the same name, Speedboat is an EP about living in New York City and the neuroses that come with it,” the members of Diary explain. “We’ve always been an NYC band but never fully explored what that meant to us. Living here and playing music here there’s a ceaseless oscillation between anxiety and anticipation. Even as you sleep and dream about the buildings and the hum of the street.

“Musically, we turned to Sister-era Sonic Youth, early Dinosaur Jr, Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Methadrone, Swirlies and Drop Nineteens,” they add. “But at the end of the day, we just love big pop songs that run super loud and fuzzy.”

The recently released EP’s latest single “Acid Coffin” is a hook-driven synthesis of slacker pop, shoegaze and jangle pop that reminds me of 120 Minutes-era MTV alt rock — but with a subtly modern production sheen.