If the White Stripes last album Get Behind My Satan featured as many good songs as Smoosh’s debut She Like Electric does, perhaps it would have been worth some of its undue praise.

If you don’t know the story already, then hunt this disc down, and don’t look at its back cover or booklet. Just listen to the songs. Hey, they’re probably on the web. Just don’t ready anything about the band. Then listen to it. Sure, Asya sounds young. But songs like “It’s Cold” are so effortlessly catchy, melodically strong, and well paced that all references to drummer Chloe’s age of 11 or her big sister (13) are rendered irrelevant.

Yes, the hip-hop call-outs on “Rad” are awful, but the sweet Harpsichord arpeggio on “Take It Away” more than makes up for it. “La Pump” surprises with a sexual energy that is just WRONG but feels so good. It’s surprising, not least of all because the band are barely pre-teens, but because they do it with a great sense of adventure; the sort of thing that bands like Morningwood wish they could achieve.

The keyboard line that is used more than once too often does get a touch repetitive, but as much as anything She Like Electric promises much for the future. Considering that the duo have recently finished cutting their second effort, which if this debut is anything to go by promises to be the second instalment in a great period of creative growth.