Everything Everything - 'Man Alive' (Geffen) Released: 30/08/10

Once in a while a band comes along that has you fizzing, clamouring, boasting with excitement. The repeat button gets worn. Your housemates get bored. But you persist. It happened with The Strokes, and again with the Arctic Monkeys, hell it even happened with Kings of Leon. And it’s happening again, this time with Everything Everything.

Launching into their recording career with current single 'My Kz Ur BF', ignore the teenage text speak for a minute and what you actually have is a mature slice of indie pop, veering from Wild Beasts vocals to Joy Division intensity, with some Prince-esqe pop thrown in for good measure. It’s about as perfect an opener as you’ll hear.

You’ll know previous single 'Schoolin’' from it’s addictive whistle interlude that once in your brain is there to stay. For ever. And that’s part of the Manchester (via Newcastle and Kent) four-piece’s appeal. It never gets tedious. Their debut will sit in your CD player for the entire year, unchallenged by nearly everything else 2010 has to offer.

'Leave The Engine Room' could be the most beautiful track to come out of Manchester. Imagine Bombay Bicycle Club’s recent offering, add it together, while listening to Bon Iver on repeat, and Everything Everything’s ballad still wins the love-in. “Mother all the boys say I did it, and if all the girls say I did it, then man I’m as guilty as the ones that came before,” singer frontman Jonathan sings during the track.  And if all this comes from his mind, barely out of university, it’s frightening what the second record will produce.

But let’s not rush things. For now the boys are focusing on their future-pop indie harmonies, like the unrivalled 'Two For Nero', which features the lyric: “Tell me why you came here, squatting round a Game Gear like Sega never died, we met inside a war zone, you said let’s **** the o-zone.” Honestly this all comes from the same band. The complexity and imagination for a debut means this is the band to keep an eye on. The new Radiohead? Watch and see.