Few bands can do catchy electro like New Young Pony Club. It almost seems like a rule now that every band that puts out a great single will flop when it comes to creating an entire album, spending eight to 10 tracks trying in vain to create different variations on the sound that got them enough attention to even get an album. So it is extremely lucky for humanity that London-based New Young Pony Club translated their 2006 eponymous three track EP into their 2007 studio release, Fantastic Playroom.

Fantastic Playroom is a rocket launcher of an album. From start to finish, each of its 40 minutes is high-energy and incredibly catchy without sounding at all monotonous. In fact, writing about the album is made somewhat difficult by the fact that almost every track could be a single. But "Ice Cream," full of strange and hilarious ice cream sexual references ("I can be the sauce you crave / drink me like a liquor") launched New Young Pony Club's EP into infamy, and it also leads off the album.

That is followed by "The Bomb," which somehow manages to merge 50's roller skate pop with British dancehall. Don't ask, but it works. But if anything, the album is working towards a climax with the final track, "Tight Fit," which is arguably one of the best rock songs written recently. 

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