Maybe Nasty, Brutish and Short is meant to be a description of Nashville garage savant Daniel Pujol’s latest EP under the PUJOL moniker, and if that is the case, we’ll partly agree with him. It’s plenty brutish, but only in the most likeable way, rip-snorting its way out of the gate with the unbelievably catchy “Mayday”, a song Dan describes as being "about my friend Richard Houston attaining maximum grooviness by harnessing different viewpoints to gain a clearer perspective aside from feigning teenage omniscience”, genius. It proceeds to tear through barn burners like “Stuff” and the twangy punk of “Point of View”, which plays a little like a Southern fried Wavves, a shiny Jay Reatard.

Nasty? Only intermittently so, like when Pujol goes after his baby in “Emotion Chip” for being “just a brain, with no feeling”, but it sounds like she deserves it. “Scully”, a head-boppin’ garage homage to one half the X-Files team, is hardly nasty, and “Tiny Gods (Singularity)” is plenty bright, if a little bratty. And short? Well, naturally the songs are, this is garage pop, friend. But seven songs on an EP ain’t skimping; in fact, for the prolific Pujol, who’s released some ten singles and EP’s two years (including some splits with his Nashville brother and kindred spirit, Turbo Fruits’ Jonas Stein) seven songs is an epic.

The point is, for a guy who name checks Mulder, Ezra Pound, Crass and ZZ Top as influences, all in the same interview, Daniel Pujol doesn’t labor over things, doesn’t overthink. No time, he says, claiming in his bio via Saddle Creek, to have made this EP “at the speed of my life”. If it sounds this good, why not? We’ll take it. How about you? Give a listen to the raucous good time that is Nasty, Brutish and Short, and tell us what you think of the latest from PUJOL