Indie pop EP channels Raveonettes, Smiths

The idea of getting higher has become such a malleable term in music. From Jim Morrison to Ike and Tina Turner to Lil Wayne to Passion Pit, the term has been used with varying degrees of indulgence in respective songs. On Dum Dum Girls’ new EP, “He Gets Me High,” it means bolder sound throughout.

Kirstin “Dee Dee” Gundred had the assistance of the Raveonettes’ Sune Rose Wagner and ’60s girl-group super-songwriter Richard Gottehrer on the release, and their keen ears for girl sounds and lyricism is evident.

The title track gets slogs through a sea of echo and distorted guitar to paint a fairly dismal picture of drug entendres. “Take Care of My Baby” follows with something of a weeping, drawn out plea that forgoes percussion for an almost transparent texture, much like the song’s desperation.

The first and last tracks, “Wrong Feels Right” and a cover of The Smiths’ “There is a Light That Never Goes Out” respectively, see Dee Dee reach her most intense and dynamic with her vocals, scorching faster tempos and more colorful instrumentation with her edge.

“Wrong” is probably the EP’s best track, two and a half minutes of sexy surf-rock lust (and more drug metaphors) driven by a manic drum line that sees Dee Dee lose it in the best way by the ending, the highlight of her tremendous performance on the EP.