To certain elements of TinyVoices (that would be Mat), the Go! Team’s movie-soundtrackish debut is considered nothing less than a work of genius. Those of us less enamoured with their cutesy kindergarten instrumental funk electronica (that would be me) are left scratching our heads in slightly-bored bewilderment.

"Ladyflash” comes across like a hippy Lemon Jelly in a lounge bar. A mildly distorted funk beat underpins faint digitised vocals, floating around with what sounds like a primary school playground, a flute, and all manner of pretty samples.

It is actually very nice - no matter how much you try to turn your nose up at its stylishly twee abandon, it just sits back, folds its arms and smiles sweetly, safe in the knowledge that whether you like it or not, you’ll be back for more - probably in the early daylight hours of a Sunday morning, sitting against the radiator on the floor of someone else’s living room.

Meanwhile, the Hot Chip Remix focuses its energy on a soulful electric piano line before treating us to the vocals at an audible level. And though it retains most of the charm of the original, it loses a little of the blended magic by giving unspectacular elements of the mix a little too much exposure.

Tom Pegg - 8/10

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