Spotlight: Stella Ella Ola

There's a lack of music in this world that is actively fun to listen to. Stella Ella Ola starts out with the advantage of being made for fun, by people who just seem to love being together jamming on instruments and tossing together lyrics like it ain't nothing. Each of the seven songs released to date by Stella Ella Ola has an infectious joy to it, start with with their seemingly casual, loosely-constructed nature and radiating outward in the vocal deliveries of its various members, its wild solos and catchy riffs, whether in the twist-like "Peter Sellers," the bubbly jangle pop of "New Year Song" or the blistering "Summerette." Simple, pure, good clean fun. And they make it look so easy. Hell yeah.