Evocative of The Raveonettes, had Sharin Foo and Sune Rose Wagner combined long before legal raving age, French Kiss is the kind of candid, ingenuous number that immediately commands undivided attention as much as it does undying affection. For Abby Betts and Daniel Longmore – aka Mini Skirt – have very much nailed the ol’ lo-fi lark right away, with their shoegazing début endeavour also recalling Mazzy Star, were the Californians to replace their distaste for the limelight with the eternally spotlit Ellie Rowsell, or something. Regardless of these fanciful hypotheticals though, it’s so winsome a song that not even the transportationally contradictory pledge, “I’ll run to wherever you are/ So drunk, French-kissing in your car” can take away from its teen charms…

Mini Skirt.