Finally, The Cops can breathe a sigh of relief – another pop band have sprung up even more controversial than them. Just like their predecessors, teenagersintokyo are brash, fashionable and have plenty of mainstream appeal. The band of “four girls (plus a guy)” boldly claim Suicide and Siouxsie And The Banshees among their influences, but bash out a chic and upbeat brand of electronica that’s sure to horrify devotees of either group.

And what’s with the video for ‘End It Tonight’? An impeccably polished, retro 60s thing that seems to be vaguely political, featuring images of the glammed-up girls operating a pedal-powered sewing machine and disposing of a dead man’s body, juxtaposed with close-ups of their cleavage and thighs. It ends with a shot of a shirt and tie floating in the pool while one of them lazes by the water, looking every bit the director’s wet dream in a swimsuit, heels and an avalanche of bling. If it is trying to say something, I don’t get it.

What I do get, though, is how stylish the music is. The teenagers plunder the same back catalogue as Midnight Juggernauts have done – synth-pop, trance and the type of goth club beats that no one in the 90s thought would ever become cool – reworked with a killer attitude and suitable polish. From the pounding ‘Very Vampyr’ to the voodoo percussion of ‘Black Bones’, there isn’t a moment’s wasted space. It’s an excellent disc.

by Andrew Ramadge