Performing Friday at the Squaek and Squawk Music Festival will be Pwrfl Power, an odd presence in indie pop.

"When I started out," says Kazutaka Nomura, AKA Pwrfl Power, "(I was playing) mostly silly songs, shorter songs just about daily topics. ... After about three years of playing, they've become not so funny."

Funny or not, Pwrfl Power's music is still marked by quirky awkwardness and unique guitar work.  There's an undertone of quiet romanticism in Nomura's writing that makes it endlessly endearing.

Pwrfl Power

With Strange Holiday, Oberhofer and Cap Lori, Friday, June 11, 6 p.m., all ages, $6
The Squawk Box, 745 St. Helens Ave., Tacoma
myspace.com/squeakandsquawkfestival