When I went to sleep last night, I'd never heard of Tokyo Tea Room; less than an hour after waking, I can't get their single All Night out of my head.
Billed by music magazine/website Indie Is Not A Genre as "Margate's premier dream-pop outfit" is either a cheeky piss take or knowingly underselling the ambition of this Kent four-piece. It's the latter, to be fair, as writer Katie Macbeth later describes the band as "a globally recognised musical force".
Tokyo Tea Room is made up of Beth Dunn (vocals), Ben Marshall (bass), Sam Teather (drums) and on everything else, including guitars, songwriting and production, Daniel James Elliott.
All Night has an infectious groove, complemented by Beth's vocals, and if you aren't compelled to move, then the video has some dance moves that anyone could get to grips with in the confines of their own home.
Eyes Off You, released a month ago, follows a similar template and suggests that upcoming album Feel Forever will be the soundtrack to late summer roadtrips and autumn indie discos everywhere.
Their tour of the USA and Europe brings Tokyo Tea Room to the Exchange in Bristol in late November and it's on my "would like to go" list.
For a lazy comparison which I haven't 'researched' but is likely to have been made a thousand times already at least, if you like Khruangbin, then I think you will like Tokyo Tea Room very much. At least, based on the total four songs by the latter that I've heard so far.
Here are the other three.
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