'Fantastic Playroom' is the debut album by the north London electro-indie-poppers New Young Pony Club. A winning mixture of sonic invention and dancefloor grooves, this album will appeal to fans of acts such as Klaxons, CSS and Bonde Do Role. Includes the single 'Ice Cream'.

Mar 2007

New Young Pony Club – three girls, two gents and a sparkling bag full of sass that will have boys going wild and girls wishing they were in a band – continue to lead the charge of ultra modern disco hipsters everywhere with their debut album 'Fantastic Playroom'.

The limited release of single ‘Ice Cream’ in the latter half of 2006 coupled with a support slot on Lily Allen’s UK tour and an ever-present TV ad have helped the five piece saunter almost unnoticed into the consciousness of the country at large. During the same period they managed to cement their already sizeable fanbase, sign to one of the most forward thinking labels of the moment in Modular Records, and begin work on what is to be one of the musical cognoscenti’s most eagerly awaited albums of 2007.

The album includes 'The Bomb', which adds to the band’s blueprint so elegantly sketched out in the aforementioned ‘Ice Cream’. Where that track displayed sharp corners and a glacial cool, 'The Bomb' brings a warmer, richer air to proceedings. Ty’s lyrical web is once again the main attraction with a series of out-there couplets designed to bemuse, confuse and tantalise at will, while Andy’s production brings together the best bits of ESG, Tom Tom Club and LCD Soundsystem into entirely new shapes.

Heralded in the blogosphere long before its actual mid-2007 release, FANTASTIC PLAYROOM by British new wave revivalists New Young Pony Club manages to be both affectless and infectious. Catchy synth riffs, simple dance beats, and deadpan female vocals (courtesy of mega-flirt Tahita Bulmer) recall the more feminine side of '80s post-punk dance music, with the same healthy doses of irreverence as bands like Romeo Void and Delta 5.

One of the premier bands of England's so-called Nu Rave scene of the early 2000s, New Young Pony Club hit upon a sassy, infectious mix of synth-driven melodies, classic U.K. rave beats, and just enough guitar to keeps things edgy. Lead singer Tahita Bulmer vamps it up with a sultry yet detached style that firmly places her in the Debbie Harry school of female frontwomen. The band have proven to be darlings of the ever-fickle U.K. music press, and have developed a certain hipster cachet in the U.S. as well.