Happy People – Apt

Multi-instrumentalist Jeff Widner and singer Steve Ortega team up on HP EP, the debut EP from Happy People. There’s a lot of acts which try to sound like these guys but with only a fraction of the same success. ‘Apt’ sounds like wall-of-sound Feist or stripped-down Broken Social Scene, depending on how you look at it. Fans of fellow Jerseyites The Wrens will find much to love here, including a similarly eclectic range on the rest of the EP. Contributed by Christopher Gedos

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Rating: 8.2

Reviewed by b3