There was much hoopla surrounding Kids of 88 when their debut hit My House came out in 2009.
Rightly so too, because New Zealand hadn't had a pop song like that for years. And they followed it up with accomplished electronic dance pop (with guitars) album, Sugar Pills.
On second album Modern Love, there is nothing quite as addictive - and with guilty pleasure potential - as My House, because the kids have grown up. There is virtually no sexual innuendo, nor are there any "oohs" and "aahs".
For that reason it loses a bit of fun factor, but it makes up for it with star-gazing escapism on tracks like Zion, which saunters, bleeps and stomps along, the deliciously cheesy Feel the Love, and the LCD Soundsystem-meets-Madonna mood of Euphoria.
The latter is a hypnotic, rave-tastic gem with an escalating mix of woozy spectral synth, head-down bum-up beats, and thrumming bass.
