It's always infuriating when you hear about a band, roughly about your age, from the same country as you, who suddenly grab everyone's attention in the best possible way.

Now this is one of those things that's just about possible to deal with if the artists in question are untalented and/or a flash in the pan and/or play thrash metal. Elle
S'appelle are fortunately none of these things. Having only been together for less than a year, they are a wonderful mix of bouncy guitar pop with perfectly fitting lady vocals over the top. With beautifully worked in melodies, they're just as catchy as one could want.

Little Flame is a perfect debut single, with the silliest lyrics this side of a Decemberists B-side, about a cheeky little flame who burns his way through a neighbourhood. The vocal harmonies of girl (Lucy) and boy (Andy) are delicate, sweet and sing-songy in equal measures. B-Side She Sells Sea Shells is perhaps superior even to its bigger sister, with layered keyboards on organ setting, it's as chirpy as one
would hope for, and with a boy taking the main vocal line, it is a nice variation from Little Flame.

It's only a matter or time before you see Elle S'appelle filling the more Death Cab inclined indie dance floors across the country, limbs will flail, feet will stomp, beer
will be spilled.