Here's what's great about Love Is All: when they cover Dire Straits 'wonderful ballad "So Far Away," they don't punk it up, they don't play it with irony, they don't play it with distance. It's not by any means a faithful cover (it's close, yet they still make it their own), but the mournful sentiment behind it is unchanged and just as sincere (if not more so) than when Mark Knopfler rode it to chart success back in 1985.

"So Far Away" is the only serious moment on the Wishing Well + 5 Covers EP, an incredibly fun collection of songs that reveals kinda what we all hoped was true about Love Is All: that the Swedish kids were sweet and lively and earnest and sincere and, maybe more than anything, weirdly innocent. There's an infantilism to their music that makes them so goddamned loveable.

On their 2006 debut, Nine Times That Same Song, LIA exploded thanks to the mesh of singer Josephine Olausson's kid sister exuberance fronting James Chance-like caterwauling contortions, a sound that dabbled in no wave, pop-punk, post-punk and straight pop. "Wishing Well," the first track here and the one LIA original (it will be on their upcoming album… read more »