A tale of cosmetics and adultery in deepest Aberystwyth… no, not the strapline for a lame Brit flick starring Rhys Ifans and Imelda Staunton, but the irresistible premise behind this tasty hand-stitched morsel of 60s pop and new wave punk.
This is so perfect you want to laugh – no greasy over-production either, just a natural, warm Indian summer breeze of Yeah Yeah Yeahs-meets-the-B52s, all swirling organ, surf guitar and back-seat-of-the-bus spunkiness.
With a devotional, ridiculously joyful ski-jump of a chorus lifted from Pixies "Levitate Me" urging her forward, lead singer Becky Newman – whose sweet, slightly trembling voice is a little bit Susanna Hoffs, a little bit Patti Smith - taunts a cologne-soaked married lech before she devours him - “I heard love and God couldn’t save you from a girl with green eyeliner on”.
Forget Kate Moss: there was never a better reason to hit the Rimmel counter.
by Anna Britten