Not too far removed from the style of Goldfrapp (they called their album Black Cherry) – Coco Electrik’s Anne Booty shares a similar vocal style to Alison Goldfrapp and the band’s mix of bristling guitars and edgy synthesisers certainly shares common ground.

Neither does White Ink waste much time getting its message across, dispensing with long intros or atmospherics and getting straight down to delivering an idiosyncratic brand of electronic pop.

There are some really nice tunes here, which would have fared wonderfully when the synth revolution first got underway – even perhaps a little leftfield. The poppy opener Shine A Light, with its arpeggiated keyboards and pungent cyber riffs, blends well with Booty’s high-pitched Prince impersonations. Black Halo is equally impressive, with its glockenspiel chimes carried forward by retro synth sweeps, a malleable bass line and wide-ranging vocal.

Fire & Ice is the first tune to really rock out, bringing crunchy, thrashing guitars to the fore, with a belting, anthemic chorus – almost punkish. Black Widow quickly follows, developing the theme with a more evocative rigour and equally strong hooks; it’s hard to fault these songs – their simplicity the key to their effectiveness, and always the key to writing strong pop music.

White Ink rarely lets up, but remains highly variably, slowing somewhat to brood with Breakfast In Berlin – strong links with the aforementioned Goldfrapp here, and the kooky Tip Of My Tongue, merging male vocals and adding pliable saxophone bursts, something which I haven’t witnessed for about 20 years in modern pop, but it perhaps succeeds for that very reason.

The closing White Ink is equally charismatic as the rest of the record; a simple yet consuming dark ballad; it cannot be understated at how successfully Coco Electrik succeeds in creating passionate pop music despite displaying an almost crudely minimal aesthetic at times.

All-in-all, White Ink is a highly compact, perfectly designed, modern electro-pop record that references the past in heaps, yet manages to create an effortlessly contemporary sound. I keep going back to the Goldfrapp link, but that’s not a bad thing; it provides a suitable guide and on this evidence Coco Electrik are every bit as good.