About two minutes into it’s cover of “Young Doctors In Love,” Mint Wad Willy captures the creeping dread of a fleeting intimate moment.

The Digital Leather original is playfully anxious and lo-fi, leisurely moving forward like a video game day dream. Sean Foree’s lyrics describe the desperation without vocally or tonally committing to it.

In contrast, the Omaha garage rock band rode a surfy wash of distortion and pop punk harmonies until the breakdown. Then the dissonance buzzed throughout O’Leaver’s as Nick Johnston and Derek LeVasseur waveringly repeated the finishing line “Hey … I think we’re alone now.”

Mint Wad Willy plays next month with Noah’s Ark Was A Spaceship (who releases a brand new album) and Eric In Outerspace (RSVP here). Watch the band cover “Young Doctors In Love” at O’Leaver’s during HN’s Take Cover concert.

Special thanks to Ian Aeillo and Live at O’Leaver’s.