French duo Foretaste serve up their third studio album, perfecting the clean electro-pop of previous releases Beautiful Creatures (2005) and Terrorist TV (2008).

Singing in flawless English, Terrorist_XX provides the tormented female vocals over Terrorist_XY’s choppy, highly melodic synthpop arrangements. Beautifully harmonic and produced with pristine clarity, Foretaste glide between uptempo and slower, more balladic efforts.

Highlights are many, but the first three tracks, Alone with People Around, Do What You Can and The End of Days set the tempo and bring almost instant satisfaction, and whilst the remainder of the album is both consistent and catchy in spades, efforts such as My Greatest Deception are drug-inducingly addictive.

Albeit brutally digital at times, Love On Demand is about as prescient an electro-pop album as I’ve heard in many a year, collating all the catchy artifices from oft revisited eighties acts and honing their magnetism to provided a modernist, yet retro-inflected, new romantic slant which never takes itself too seriously – but is neither absurdist.

Synthpop fans might well find Love on Demand glued to their ears for months.