The Spits' self-titled nine-track mini-album -- the one on Dirtnap Records with the '50s vintage girl-and-robot cover photo, not to be confused with a similarly titled release on Nickel and Dime, also nine tracks long, that came out the same year -- sounds like what would happen if the Cocteau Twins' Robin Guthrie had produced an album by a circa-1978 U.K. power pop band along the lines of the Records or the early Undertones. The songs are one to two-minute blurts of punky ramalama. The production takes these songs and douses them in so much reverb and echo that it at times sounds as if the band is playing while trapped in the bottom of a large galvanized steel water tank.