Taken from their savagely understated debut LP ‘Elephant Shell’, Canada’s favourite voice of indie-youth Tokyo Police Club, offer up third single ‘Graves’, another two and a half minute onslaught of quick-fire mature-above-their years indie. Despite their musical maturity, you can kinda understand why this four-piece don’t even have a combined age of over 80. Youthfulness and feel-good decadence oozes from the speakers with this indie-pop nugget, currently doing the rounds and winning the crowds on their Australian tour.

‘Graves’ opens with guitarist Josh Hook’s frenetic Strokes-sounding rhythms before the cavalcade of drums and harmonically sustained keys fills the room It’s the sound of freshness & superbly tight interplay, finding this band high on confidence and bite. Singer David Monks’s bittersweet confessions such as “fingernails beneath the dirt” and “I’ll try, but I’ll never be a gentle man” finds a Canadian front-man with more strings to his lyrical bow than his fellow country-man Mr Chad Kroeger ever will to his.

After hearing this you will have found a police force that you won’t mind being held in custody by. ‘Graves’? - we dig.