Every once in a while you come across a song that is so catchy, so crisp, and so butt-shakingly awesome that you can’t stop listening to it for days. Maybe you come up with little music videos in your head for it, and maybe you have fantasies of seeing it performed live. Everyone has probably felt this way about a song at least once, and for me, a couple of years ago, “Malt Licker” was that song. Clocking in at just over a minute and a half, my only complaint about this heady, self-effacing garage-punk ripper remains that it’s all too short.

“Malt Licker” as I originally discovered it was performed by The Jitters, but a highly similar version resurfaces on the first full-length from the Brooklyn duo Nancy (who are, let’s say, closely related to The Jitters). And it sounds as great as ever. In fact, all eight tracks of Nancy’s eponymous debut are just as rock-solid. This is punk in its purest form–not hardcore punk, not pop punk, not punk with any kind of adjective in front of it– just punk as the forefathers of the genre created it. Seriously, “Long Island Lovin'” could be a long-lost Ramones track if you’ve ever heard one. Listen, rock out, repeat.

The cassette release of Nancy is long gone, but you can, of course, enjoy it streaming below via Bandcamp.

Disclaimer: all you in-the-know New Englanders should note that this is a different Nancy than the short-lived Nancy from Burlington, VT a few years ago (though there is some personnel overlap), but both Nancy’s are very much Nancy’s worth hearing.