Paper Lady (photo by Greg Wong)

As the Allston Pudding machine winds down its preview of Boston Calling artists, and transitions to festival coverage, we wanted to spotlight one final local band ahead of Memorial Day weekend. Five-piece dreampop n’ shoegaze group Paper Lady are making their Boston Calling debut this Saturday. We think you should take your festival schedule and star Paper Lady’s set, cut it out with scissors, and tape it to your wristband so you don’t forget.

How do they sound? Singer Alli Raina glides through clouds of reverb akin to The Sundays and Cocteau Twins. There’s an edge underneath the pillowy surface where driving beats and scratchy instrumentals poke through, keys and guitars rain down hard. A propensity for the occult bolts and crackles around them, but in a tongue-in-cheek way, like I can imagine them performing in the cult comedy “Hot Fuzz.” It all sounds so far away, as festival-ready echoes drench melodies to make everything bigger, so playing the Orange stage at Boston Calling should suit them well. 

Best enjoyed up close to the stage, we’ll be nodding along to Paper Lady’s poppy cacophony at their 5:20 set on Saturday, over at the Harvard Athletic Complex.