MAKING their debut release under the Island Records banner, EP Something like Heaven from Model Aeroplanes sees the band produce a bold and assured mix of luscious Afro-Carribean beats and new wave guitar-pop influences that amount to a feast of mouth-wateringly fruity feel-good anthems.

Opener ‘Something Like Heaven’ sees sharp, dulcet vocal harmonies meet jangly guitars in an explosion of disco-dipped youthful energy that’s rich, cohesive and utterly irresistible.

Fuzzy guitars on ‘The Wild’ hint at a slight change of direction, before the calypso doused guitars and soaring vocals bathe us in more exuberant, sleek indie-pop tones in what is a slice of such pure disco-pop gold that you’d be forgiven for thinking bore the finishing touches of a certain Quincy Jones at the height of his production powers.

‘Whatever Dress Suits You Better’ maintains the winning formula, backed by pounding percussion and gloriously colourful guitar rhythms that undulate towards perfection, while with ‘Toothache’, polished harmonies and jagged guitars pay testament to the fresh-faced band’s confidence and respective abilities.

In Something like Heaven we find a thoroughly accomplished, ambitious debut EP that from the Dundonian quartet that, on numerous occasions, sees Model Aeroplanes succeed in engineering moments of unashamed, pure pop perfection.