‘When in doubt, clap,’ is the advice on their MySpace page, which both signposts NYPC’s sexily insistent, syncopated disco beats and cheekily exhorts everyone to applaud them. Which is no less than their debut album deserves.
The synth-pop quintet are fronted by robo-voxed foxstress Tahita Bulmer and have released three corking singles to date, the first (on Tirk Records, almost exactly two years ago) was the deadpan and lascivious ‘Ice Cream’, recently re-issued by Modular and is no more about a dairy product than was Kelis’ ‘Milkshake’. Their second and third singles, ‘The Get Go’ and ‘Get Lucky’, also appear on ‘Fantastic Playroom’. It’s an intelligent, yet properly groovy affair that wriggles with irresistible pop hooks and packs ten invitations to cut some rug, which might lead to charges of public indecency. Modelled after ESG, Tom Tom Club, Blondie, New Order, Gary Numan, and the contemporary likes of Le Tigre and LCD Soundsystem, it also has its darkly contemplative moments – most notably, ‘Talking, Talking’. Proof, then, that being aggressively fashionable doesn’t necessarily mean disengaging your brain.
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