Kevin Bronson on October 4th, 2010

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Just when we’d hoped the five minutes for boy-obsessed girl groups had passed, Wet & Reckless spring their first single on the world, and it’s “New Guy.” The L.A. quartet trades in wry, undercooked garage pop with some nifty lyrical subterfuge, but this first single – released as part of a 7-inch split single (b/w Tracy Shedd, “Tear It Up,” available at Origami) on Fort Lowell Records – is content to coo and aah in the jetstream of the ’60s, which is not normally where frontwoman Emily Wilder and bandmates fly. You have to start somewhere.

||| Download: “New Guy”

||| Live: Wet & Reckless kick off their residency tonight at the Silverlake Lounge, supported by the Head & the Heart, Fences and Robotanists.