Though it's getting easier to revisit the music of college radio's golden era via clips of old episodes of 120 Minutes on YouTube and VH1 Classic's obscurity-packed "The Alternative" program, much of the dreamy indie pop of that period is rapidly becoming a fading memory in the minds of those old enough to remember tuning into weak FM signals and setting their VCRs to tape MTV for two hours on Sunday nights.

Philadelphia's A Sunny Day In Glasgow sounds less like the actual bands from that time and more like an aging fan's hazy recollections of old 4AD albums and long lost singles by acts whose names linger permanently on the tips of tongues. Each song on their debut EP is a carefully constructed beauty of chiming treble, ethereal female vocals, layered melodies, and otherworldly studio effects that often eclipses much of the music that feeds the band's inspiration.

"C'mon" is the band at their most impressionistic, with its shifting arrangement sounding almost like a memory of an old song being revised and reconstructed through intense concentration.

No matter how good things may be in your life, it's easy to suspect that somewhere out there, someone is having more fun in one moment than you've accumulated since birth.

History abounds with examples of creative, clever people having the sort of good times that often seem impossible to replicate. The Hank Collective's "Defreeze & Top Gal" sounds like a field recording from some amazing underground party taking place just outside of time, with a room full of cheerful, utterly unselfconscious people dancing, shouting, and passing around a microphone.

Much of the band's material evokes a similar vision of a glamorous yet attainable bohemian world. Led by a lanky guitar-playing baritone named Cab Williamson, the Toronto based group otherwise comprises beautiful, arty women who play instruments, sing, shimmy, and silkscreen unique covers for every record that they sell.

Their musicianship, recording quality, and design style is primitive and DIY in the most charming and seductive way, presenting what may normally be considered shortcomings as qualities that emphasize their enthusiasm, creativity, and mystique.

If the Hank Collective's "Defreeze & Top Gal" is like a small detail from a snapshot of a scene kept for posterity, Spank Rock's new single "Sweet Talk" is a panoramic view of a party in progress.

Backed by a track packed with enough top shelf funk riffs and electro hooks to fill an ordinary hip hop album, the song is so wantonly hedonistic and effortlessly flirtatious that it could make the most uptight introvert momentarily forget a lifetime of awkwardness and want to join in on the fun, even if just on an abstract level.

It's a thrilling track from start to finish, but its apex comes when the song shifts from its guitar-based groove into a keyboard-driven vamp, and a young woman provides a chorus that answers MC Spank Rock's lascivious come-ons with a faux-naif singsong that is at once disarmingly adorable and knowingly sexy.