London-based indie quartet Kid Wave began in 2013 as the project of Swedish singer/songwriter Lea Emmery. After leaving her hometown of Norrköping in 2011, Emmery spent her first couple of years in the U.K. honing her lush, summery, shoegaze-influenced sound and releasing early tracks on Bandcamp. Slowly she assembled a proper band and signed with influential London indie Heavenly Recordings, which released their debut EP, Gloom, in 2014. Elements of harmonic power pop, '90s-inspired indie, and melodic shoegaze peppered the four-song EP, which was followed a year later by the band's full-length debut, Wonderlust. ~ Timothy Monger