Following the release of their self-titled breakout album, pop outlet Walk The Moon (WTM) garnered quite the fan following, and toured around the U.S. festival circuit this past summer. After attracting festival-goers with their playful, sing-along inducing indie-pop, WTM briefly returned to the drawing board to throw together a  follow-up EP, titled Tightrope.

The album picks up exactly where Walk the Moon left off, with six spring-ready tunes. On the title track, lead singer Nicholas Petricca belts, “Walk your tightrope, walk your little tightrope, this heart is burning up” to a symphony of cutesy percussion and smooth guitar riffs. “Drunk in the Woods,” reminiscent of Cold War Kids, sounds like a beckoning anthem for the carefree atmosphere of summertime, and “Tightrope (acoustic)” is a colourful simplification of the upbeat title track. Walk the Moon’s lyrics are not ridden with social commentary nor any complexity. Instead, the band sings about fleeting romance, putting your feelings on the “tightrope,” and winning back ex-girlfriends: songs for beach parties and pre-drinks.

Tightrope is cheeky, easily consumable, contagious pop music. While this EP does not mark deep progress or evolution from their previous release, one can tell that the band had way too much fun last summer, and are just simply trying to re-live the experience by doing what they do best: producing another youth-celebrating indie-pop record.