TeenCanteen clearly didn’t fancy putting their feet up.

It was only last year that the female foursome released debut album Say It All With A Kiss.

Now they are bringing out an EP, Sirens, to mark this Saturday’s Record Store Day, and launching it at Nice 'N’ Sleazy that night.

“I wouldn’t say the EP was by accident, but we’d been so geared up about releasing the album that we hadn’t even thought about doing a single from it,” says Carla Easton, the Glasgow band’s main songwriter.

“It felt like enough time had passed that instead of doing a single from the album we had a couple of new songs that started where the themes of the album finished. We did a show last year where we played Sirens stripped back with just piano and vocals, and we thought we’d record it that way as a bonus.”

The four tracks sum up why the quartet - Carla, guitarist Chloe Philip, bassist Sita Pieraccini and drummer Debbie Smith – are such an exciting group, with huge harmonies and handclaps dominating the stomping What You Gonna Do About Me and emotive synth-pop running through Can’t Go Back (Starry-Eyed).

Unlike their debut last year, this time the band recorded in mono, which Carla thinks freshened things up.

“Mono gives you more options for making it a bigger sounding record,” she says.

“There were a lot of parts for the album that we had to cut from the final mix because they didn’t work in mono well. This time we got a lot of overdubs with vocals, handclaps, and stamping feet.

“I don’t think it sounds like anything else we’ve ever done – I did worry that people were going to hear it and go ‘what the hell is that?’”

The opening track itself is Carla singing about hanging around with her pals and doing what she wants, but while her songs tend to be very personal, she’s not a massive fan of revealing much about their lyrics.

“I don’t like talking too much about the lyrics, because I prefer people to just make their own minds up about what a song is about,” she says.

“It's maybe because they’re almost all autobiographical, so I don’t want to spell it out.”

As well as TeenCanteen, Carla also released an album last year with her Ette side project. And the Carluke native is continuing to develop her skills, having recently spent two weeks in Banff in Canada.

She was joined by around 20 others, as part of a songwriting residency program.

“I think it’s the best thing I’ve ever done in my life,” she enthuses.

“When I talk to people about it they say it sounds like I was in a weird cult up in the mountains but it wasn’t like that! There was a faculty of staff who were all Nashville Grammy Award winning singer-songwriters, and this studio that you could use, so it was two weeks sitting in a room with a grand piano and just writing, then recording with some great musicians and instruments.”

Carla finished off four tracks while there, and they could appear on a future Teen Canteen or Ette recording. In the meantime, the focus is on Sirens.

It is being released on the Last Night From Glasgow crowd-funded label, and Carla feels it’s fitting to bring something out for Record Store Day, because of how important independent record stores can be to smaller bands.

“We’re on Last Night From Glasgow, and the Ette album was on Olive Grove,” explains Carla.

“These are fantastic independent labels that really support their artists. But with tiny labels there is not the money the way there is with a big label or a bigger indie label, so you need record stores that will support DIY music.

“Being able to approach independent record stores, who know who you are and what you are doing musically, is really important.”

TeenCanteen, Nice 'N' Sleazy, Saturday, £8, 7pm.

JONATHAN GEDDES