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We might as well get this done and dusted: Polock, fresh out of Valencia, Spain, are the Iberian Phoenix, melodic to the bone and breaking out an ecstatic pop in hock to all those golden sounds of the 70s that would be guilty pleasures if you had anything to feel bad about. Hooks are their trade, and debut album ‘Coming Down From The Trees’ (finally released in the UK on 11th April) brims with them – rivaling ‘Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix’ for smooth, glittering appeal.

But this doesn’t make them copycats; rather, they mine similar seams. On first listen, Polock have the greater songwriting depth (if not the absolute immediacy) and, in Papu Sebastián, a singer with more presence than Thomas Mars - but that’s enough Phoenix! We’re here to welcome Polock’s new single, the delirious ‘Fireworks’, which is out this week and loveable beyond all reason. The warmer weather we’d all but given up hope of enjoying is at last upon us, and ‘Fireworks’ is exactly the sort of sunny shiver to be your springtime theme.

Check the video below, but that’s not all. They’ve also given us a download of Swedish bleep-pop crew Lo-Fi-Fnk’s remix of the single, which pulsates like something buried under the floorboards of a 1992 techno club. In a good way. Get a load of Polock.

Polock - Fireworks from Nacional Records on Vimeo.