When Telograph (***) played the Six Points Music Festival back in April, they were easily our favorite band in the festival’s Velvet Lounge lineup. We may have compared them to new-wave hipsters Interpol and The Strokes, but Telograph’s great live show made it difficult to categorize them simply as another “it” band. We’re happy to say that their upcoming EP Little Bits of Plastic justifies our initial impression: Telograph is a band to watch.

Over the course of the EP’s five songs, the band – consisting of Arash Ardalan on drums, Andy Boliek on vocals and guitar, Gary On on bass, and J.B. Whittenburg on keyboards and guitar – plays what they refer to as indie pop, but the production and mood created around those songs set them apart from their peers.

The band definitely wears its Brit-rock influences like badges of honor. At times (especially on “Electric Light”), Boliek’s vocals are comparable to Echo and the Bunnymen’s Ian McCulloch, but with a higher range. It’s also obvious that the band devoured all those Pablo Honey and The Bends b-sides that many Radiohead fans have obsessively collected over the years. Opener “Beneath Your Feet” and closer “We Won’t Settle Down” feel like comfortable throwbacks to that mid-90s British revolution. The music is especially recognizable to those of us who secretly loved Oasis and remember seeing The Verve in concert just before they broke up (and cursing Massive Attack for dropping out of that tour).

Geeky name-dropping aside, Little Bits of Plastic has a lot more going for it than inspiring nostalgia. More importantly, the songs are well crafted and you’ll have a hard time getting them out of your head. Isn’t that what it’s all about?

Little Bits of Plastic will be released Jan. 1. Telograph will play the Patriot Center on Jan. 26 with O.A.R. and Gomez.