I’m not sure if it’s the soothingly hypnotic sounds or the hypnotically surreal images that drew me to this tune, Tacoma. Probably both.

It certainly wasn’t the terrible band name of this electronic duo from Brooklyn, who have chosen to call themselves Bottler.

There are just two of them – childhood friends Pat Butler and Phil Shore – and they have apparently been playing music together for decades.

Their spectacular live performances, which I now want to see, apparently find them alternately “ripping guitar solos, shredding synth bass, playing electronic percussion and tweaking a mad scientist’s modular synth rig.”

They offered a taste of that in their Dining Room Session recorded during lockdown in New York in November 2020.

Butler and Shore grew up side by side – their parents are best friends too – and developed and nurtured their love of music together, sharing discoveries and inspirations before learning to play and perform.

Both classically trained on the piano (Pat learned from his piano teacher father, who also taught Phil), as kids they started out trying to imitate the Beastie Boys before moving on to experimenting with synths in Pat’s parents’ basement.

In their teens they played in bands – psych, indie and metal – and DJ’d in Brooklyn clubs, eventually starting to compose their own songs, in styles ranging from house to indie.

They cite among their myriad influences such diverse artists as Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Queens Of The Stone Age, Nirvana and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, as well as Orbital and The Flaming Lips.

Not that I’m really getting any of that by listening or watching this. But it sounds good on a sunny day.