Shallow’s Jason and Julie Shields are living the American dream. Two young lovers (21 and 20 to be exact) spending their early years of marriage on the road with a successful rock band. Now all the couple needs are a few children and life will be complete, right?

“No way,” Jason said. “We can’t even take care of a cat, we’re so busy. Being on the road together is way better. If one of us leaves, the other one goes with. Ryan [Newton, bass player] has had a girlfriend for a long time, and we see how hard it is for him to leave her all the time.”

Close relationships are an important element in the chemistry that bonds this young Kansas City quartet together. According to Shields, he and Newton have been best friends since kindergarten.

“It really helps a lot,” he said. “Everyone in the band is self-taught, but we learned together. We know each other’s styles really well, and that helps a lot in writing music.”

Writing has been no challenge for the self-described “mellow/ noisy /kind of poppy/ kind of psychadelic” band. “One person starts playing something and everyone joins in,”Shields said. “Vocals are always the last thing we add.

“We write a new song every night, really,” he said. “The last song of every show is always totally improv. We have a tendency to write songs that go from quiet to really loud, which I suppose comes from being more of a live band. We like surprising people by switching directions so fast.”

Shallow’s latest release, CD Laser Lens Cleaner, proves they are more than just a live band. The EP includes three tracks off the band’s debut, 3-D Stereo Trouble, remixed by Spacemen 3’s Sonic Boom.

“We were just hanging around one day with some of the guys from our label, talking about some of our influences, when someone came up with the idea of having a couple of our songs remixed and put out on a 10-inch,” Shields explained.

“Sonic’s name came up, and we’re big Spacemen 3 fans, so we decided to send him the tracks and see what he could do. We were surprised at how willing he was to do it, and he hardly asked for any money.”

The end result was seven versions of “I Wonder” and four of “Eighty-Four Glide.” Meanwhile, Shallow decided to do a cover of Spaceman 3’s “I Love You” as a thank you to Sonic.

“We didn’t necessarily target Spacemen 3’s audience,” Shields said. “But we like them, and it’s cool for them to hear us.

“When the label wanted to put the remixes on CD, we chose some different versions and added a few songs we had recorded at home and put lyrics behind them.”

“We were way more relaxed when we recorded these,” he explained. “Our sound changes depending on the general mood we’re in that month.

“Sometimes, we’ll be mellow and laidback. We don’t enjoy recording as much, but we’re happy now. We weren’t with the first disc, but now we’re actually excited to get in and record again.”

Shallow bring their spacey, trance-like melodies to the Maintenance Shop on Saturday. Tickets for the 8 p.m. show are $4 and can be purchased at the door or any Ticketmaster outlet.