Maybe I’m too easily impressed, but any band that chooses to rhyme “Sue”, “Zoo” and “Petits Filous” automatically has my respect. Dublin four-piece Changing Gears, to my knowledge, are the first group in living memory to link zoology and yogurt and, for that, they should be applauded. Whether the rest of their EP, ‘Don’t You Wish’, is as unexpected and original does remain questionable, but if it’s a quick helping of mild-mannered indie-pop you’re after, you won’t go too far wrong.

What Changing Gears offer is a neat line in the lighter, cheery side of the musical spectrum, where everything’s bright, bubbly and upbeat. “Infectious” would be taking it too far, but this is good-mood music which should leave you smiling. It’s all jangly guitars, gentle basslines, and floating harmonies, with only one of the four songs even making it over the three-minute mark. It’s nothing you haven’t heard before or won’t hear again, but it is done well.

Title track Don’t You Wish kicks things off, a catchy, confident opener with a simple guitar-heavy melody. It’s probably the strongest song on here. Same goes later for the closing number, Dirty Fingers. Staying fairly safe and innocuous on the musical side, led again by guitar and keys, it’s Eoin O’Donnell’s and Ciara Moran’s vocals which just about steer it past becoming generic.

Paul Simon remains loyal to the sound of the man himself, the jaunty guitars and warm harmonies lending this little love song a really easygoing, summery feel. Meanwhile, Soup, the yogurt-referencing tale of rejection, keeps that same feel-good factor up, despite the somewhat dejected lyrics. Although well-executed and uncomplicated, they’re both, again, on sometimes too familiar territory.

So, Changing Gears? If anything, this feels like the band are on automatic, cruising smoothly through the indie landscape with no major problems. A change of pace and a slightly new direction might serve them well in the future.