If Austin’s Ugly Beats borrow anything from the mid-60s, it’s the idea that your song should make its point and get out quick: Only one song on this 12-track album tops three minutes, and that one is the change-of-pace ballad.

Though they take a lot of inspiration from that decade, the Ugly Beats aren’t a slavish throwback. For one thing, they combine a Byrds-y, 12-string lead guitar with pounding, garage-y backbeat—not a combination that was often heard back then.

And they throw a bit of country into the mix, with the one cover, Tim Hardin’s “If I Were a Carpenter,” clearly based on the Johnny Cash/June Carter version.

The most obvious homage here, “Los Gusanos,” is sung in Spanish and evokes the Sir Douglas Quintet, a band that doesn’t get nearly enough love.

The album’s first and best track, “Up On the Sun” is a hell-raising tribute to Nick Curran, the great young Austin guitar-slinger who died of cancer two years ago. Curran never respected any boundaries between roots-rock, country, garage and rockabilly music, and neither do the Ugly Beats.