Like The Pastels, The Vaselines, and Teenage Fanclub, the Glasgow trio PAWS craft barbed pop hooks sung over distorted electric guitars. “Catherine 1956” opens PAWS' 2012 debut album, Cokefloat!, with melodies more sugary than a scoop of vanilla ice cream floating on a cold soft drink. And although “Jellyfish” crackles with the energy of '80s power pop, the song is gussied up in slightly detuned and overdriven guitar tones that recall such '90s bands as Dinosaur Jr. and Sebadoh. With fuzzed-out riffs and aloofly cool singing, “Homecoming” plays like bygone recordings by any of those awesome bands signed to Creation Records circa 1992. There’s a raw and minimal production throughout Cokefloat! that resonates with the roughness of PJ Harvey’s Rid of Me and The Pixies' Surfer Rosa. But these songs are confidently played; any more studio bells and whistles would be too much. Just the guitars alone in “Pony” are fetching enough with their howling wails when that distortion box is stomped on.