Operator Please - Yes Yes Vindictive

Brille

There’s something to be said for overdosing on E-numbers – there’s so much energy on display on the debut from these Australian teens, it’s exhausting just listening to it. Yes Yes Vindictive mines the same rich sugar seam which fuels Los Campesinos!, producing frantic, string and keyboard-driven indie-pop, tailor-made for causing a ruckus on your local dance floor. The Antipodean agitators adopt a more song-based approach than their Welsh contemporaries, though, with fewer tangents and a strong female vocal in place of the chaotic boy-girl patter. This lends tracks like ‘Pantomime’, ‘Other Song’ and the slinky ‘6/8’ a depth which suggests the potential for real development and longevity. In the meantime, however, there are plenty of hi-octane thrills to be going on with.

The likes of ‘Ghost’ and first single ‘Get What You Want’ are top-class examples of how to do youthful and energetic without pissing off anyone over 20, while ‘Leave It Alone’ is one of the best pop songs you’ll hear all year. It deserves to be a hit. Even ‘Just A Song About Ping Pong’, which combines tribal drum rolls and handclaps with some scattershot semi-rapped vocal work, stays the right side of wacky. I’m going to listen to it again. Might munch on some blue Smarties first, though. Lee Gorman

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DOWNLOAD: ‘Get What You Want’, ‘Leave It Alone’, ‘6/8’.
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