It's a quite extraordinary start, not just in terms of how listenable it is, but how familiar it is. This is straightforward eighties indie. In fact, more than that, Belinda is essentially a template for Yes She Is My Skinhead Girl by Unrest, perhaps a kind of ur-indie anthem. 1981, so very much in the same ball park as early Echo, early Cure, Depeche - but also the same time as Blondie, maybe a bit before Altered Images, but it was certainly all going on.
It sounds electronic, of course, but then most eighties indie bands did. If I wasn't determined to even out the gender split for December, I might consider doing John Foxx - I don't think it would sound a million miles away from some of this. And of course, they already had form as The Tourists anyway, so certainly hadn't come from nowhere.
Never Gonna Cry Again sounds uncannily familiar too, but I can't decide whether it's a great lost indie classic or Careless Whisper. Either works, I suppose.
Maybe it didn't do too much commercially, but I would buy this album, no doubt. Sing-Sing even has a slight edge of the whole Kit Sebastian/Stereolab axis to it. I have a feeling the next step is going to be somewhat more commercial however...