The sensational Ice Cream sets the bar high for New Young Pony Club's debut.
The cool slab of minimal early Eighties pop, all clipped vocals, nonchalant pouting and knee-jerk drums, still sounds fresh after months on the dance floor.
Those same sparse guitars and bubbling synths, that same detached delivery, are all over album opener Get Lucky. And it's pretty good stuff. But it's just not quite got it - a story repeated across Fantastic Playroom.
The Bomb is a highlight, with its late-night across-the-floor refrain: "Don't speak 'cos your mind is amazing." Elsewhere, the songs are just not good enough to carry singer Tahita Bulmer's uninterested posturing: consider the mundane Hiding On The Staircase.
NYPC do a fine line in sassy electro-pop, with plenty of staccato snaps, but lack the crackle of CSS.
New Young Pony Club play Leeds Metropolitan University on October 1
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