The Pennys distills romantic garage pop to wistful essence, the chiming guitar lick, the rattle of tambourine and the plaintive whispery melody. The Oakland duo is comprised of two low-key but excellent mainstays of the Bay Area scene. RE Seraphin came up in Apache and the Impediments but lately has been spinning out a string of bittersweet solo discs. Mike Ramos is known for his lo-fi but gemlike work with Tony Jay, Cindy and Flowertooth. Together they put together six songs, all relatively concise but in no particular hurry, all with the unfussed grace and shifting moodiness of bands like the Reds, Pinks and Purples and the Jeanines.