If an exclamation mark in a title is something to get excited by, this is your album. Sunny Florida’s own four Beach Boys have melted the – œ50s into the – œ80s and produced a surprisingly decent record.

Admittedly, picturing these model-like student types crooning cheesy lines such as “Summer’s just beginning baby/ I might learn to hate you lady” is tricky, but the sweetness of their innocent love jingles are beautifully offset by Cure-influenced guitar and echoing hand claps.

Lead single Let’s Go Surfing is deliciously catchy in its simplicity, and manages to stray away from fey territory with somewhat eerie whistling and best whistling since Young Folks. Second track Saddest Summer features a twang reminiscent of Joy Division, with some more modern keys and synth thrown in for good measure. Submarine is equal parts Joy Division and The Cure, with singer Jonathon Pierce summoning his best Robert Smith moans and wails, rounding off a polished, summery follow-up single.

Showing that they are not the one-trick-surf-song-pony they easily could be, track Down By the Water is more Spanish Harlem and The Supremes than American college rock, and allows Pierce to display a much more rounded vocal range than some of the other tracks restrict him to. Make You Mine is akin to Peter, Bjorn and John at their frolicking best, and is a beautiful song about the bitter emotions that are jealousy and regret.

Similarly, Don’t Be a Jerk, Johnny is a tongue-in-cheek break-up song, all set to a deceptively cheery backdrop. Where Pierce laments “It’s out of love”, female back-up vocals add to the irony, adding their rebuttal of a whispering – œNo, it’s not”.

Overall, Summertime! is an easily appreciated album, perfectly constructed in readiness for the Australian summer. It is just a pity that the States have to wait a whole two seasons to get the appropriate sunny backdrop it deserves.

Summertime! is out now on Popfrenzy Records.