The Pussywarmers and Réka – I Saw Them Leaving

Swiss quintet The Pussywarmers named their debut My Pussy Belongs to Daddy, which is just about sleazy enough to put someone off listening to them altogether. Luckily, judging a band by their nomenclature isn’t the done thing, because it turns out third album I Saw Them Leaving is rather good, incorporating a range of evocatively vintage elements from peppy surf guitar to swaying doo wop.

The album leads with Under the Sea, a bluesy serenade that harks to Back to the Future’s near-namesake prom and establishes the album’s slightly off-kilter, old-fashioned air. The track’s tailed with a snippet of kitsch strings, bridging the way to a sultry Sunrise – the first of several tracks to hand the microphone to Hungarian singer Réka Csiszér. Elsewhere, the wobbly pitched guitar melody of Fading Out conveys an irresistible wooziness, and while not every track offers something fresh, the overall success rate is high.