The reason I mention all this is that the members of Pretty Sad live their lives scattered around Europe, in the UK and Denmark to be precise. They function as a band by exchanging ideas and music via Garageband and Dropbox. Some people may see this as a tragic sign of the decline of indie music being made by best friends in shabby garages, but the fact is that, without the internet, bands like Pretty Sad (and others such as Eric and Magill and Old Amica) just wouldn’t exist. I reckon it will take about twenty seconds of their self-titled debut EP to see why this would be a bad thing.

What we get are three lovely dream pop songs, complete with sweet and lovelorn vocals. On first consideration the EP is perhaps more suited to summertime listening, but it’s presently doing a pretty good job of making me feel warm and fuzzy during a particularly cold and grey December day.

The moral of the story is that the internet can sometimes get a pretty bad deal. Sure, there are people out there who use it when up to no good, but if we really stop and think about it, we’re pretty lucky to be able to use the good old world wide web.

You can download the EP via Shelflife Records, who will be releasing the band’s debut full-length at some point in 2015.

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