I didn’t know what I was getting into when I pressed play on Baby, Tag Along by Easy Tiger, but I came out smiling. The EP, six songs and about seventeen minutes long, feels like climbing into a small car with two friends and hitting the road long after you should have gone home.
The opener, “Circle K”, comes in with a guitar tone that’s both restless and inviting. You can almost picture the passing streetlights through the windshield. Then “I Don’t Mind” slows the pace a little, giving you a small window to breathe, but it still moves with a pulse that keeps you alert. “Snake Eyes” has this grit to it, like something cooked up in a late-night jam session where no one cared about mistakes, only energy.
The title track, “Baby, Tag Along”, is catchy in that subtle way where you realise hours later that it’s still looping in your head. There’s a looseness to the singing, as if someone’s telling you a story from the passenger seat. “Phantom Heart” turns slightly inward, pulsing with steady drums and tangled thoughts. And when “DripDripDrip” kicks in, it all bursts open again, quick and sharp, leaving the whole thing hanging in midair right before you want more.
What hits hardest is how personal and handmade it sounds. Easy Tiger recorded, mixed, and produced everything on their own, and you can hear that sense of control and freedom tucked into every track. Nothing about it feels cautious. It’s imperfect in the best possible way, the kind of imperfection that keeps songs alive instead of polished to death.
There’s variety from song to song, little shifts between indie rock, punk, and even hints of alt-country, but it never gets scattered. The tracks connect naturally, like a night that gets messier and more meaningful as it goes. “DripDripDrip” closes the record perfectly, fast and raw, like a final word you didn’t expect to stick.
Baby, Tag Along feels honest, sweaty, and human, a snapshot of a band figuring it out in real time. If that sounds like your kind of thing, queue it up tonight, turn it loud, and then follow Easy Tiger on Spotify and social media so you’re ready for whatever they do next.
