Berklee College of Music has seen its fair share of future industry innovators walk through its illustrious doors: St. Vincent, John Mayer and Rivers Cuomo to name a few. The college’s freshest product is up-and-coming electro-pop queen Tetra, who’s proving she’s a force to be reckoned with one tantalizingly juicy beat at a time.

Tetra’s latest record is a lesson in easily accessible pop, crafted with clever composition: her seven-song EP Meter. Opening track and lead single ‘Bad Things’ is packed with a sufficient amount of cheese in a chorus as poppy as they come: “I just want to do bad things, I just want to feel wrong / I just want to make you my loveless love song”. Having said that, there’s an endearing quality to these radio-bred melodies. Tetra spins some interesting production techniques behind the song’s main hook and creates infectious textures with the synthesized beats - there’s nothing bad to be said about pop songs that are done well.

The rest of the EP veers into the more alternative side of electro-pop territory, with track three ‘Limbo’ feeling particularly reminiscent of Tetra’s reigning alternative contemporaries Banks and Purity Ring. Though never quite reaching minimalistic, Tetra inches every so near to its stark effect on tracks ‘Got You Alone’, ‘Reason To Breathe’ and ‘The Tunnel’, which all feature stripped-back, crystal clear beats. It’s an approach that works in her favour considering these are some of the strongest tracks on the record, with ‘Reason To Breathe’ emitting an FKA twigs-like coolness and ‘The Tunnel’ showcasing some of Tetra’s most emotive vocal work to date.

Intelligently put together and polished with ultra-crisp production, Tetra has produced a record that’s well worth your time.