A FAR cry from the more abrasive sounds of their earlier singles, this first full-length effort from New York-based duo, Ben Pollock and Leyla ‘Lo’ Safai, sees them flit from electro-pop to dance-punk with just a touch of hardcore menace thrown in for good measure.

The pair’s finer moments come when they dial down the urgency and let their sweeter melodies shine through, but those prove to be relatively few and far between. Hackneyed lyrics and a sense of it all having been done before, and to better effect, leave this album thrashing around in a sea of pointlessness.

Simon Harker