There’s been a wave of renewed interest recently in the indie sleaze era of the early 2000s with retrospective think piece articles and a whole cultural excavation. Lime Garden have stepped up and delivered the definitive response, with a magnificent and quintessential indie sleaze album powered by Jägerbombs front to back.

Brighton four-piece Lime Garden made Maybe Not Tonight in the aftermath of a mass romantic catastrophe, with all four members going through breakups like dominoes, and the result is an album loosely structured as a night out from pre-drinks to taxi to dancefloor to somewhere much messier. The album bottles the energy of the Arctic Monkeys’ debut, channels the cool nonchalance of The Strokes and raids the electroclash sample bin with gleeful abandon, all of it from a female perspective that brings considerably more emotional depth than your average lads night out record.

The obvious reference points are the strutting guitar of early Arctic Monkeys, The Strokes’ studied cool, and the indie disco grooves of LCD Soundsystem, synthesizing these influences into a riotously danceable record, and all four members deserve individual attention. Chloe Howard is a terrific vocalist who frequently sings flat because it sounds cool as hell and communicates more than pitch-perfect delivery ever could with lyrics that are audacious and completely naked. She’s insecure and gives far too many fucks about everything, but delivers her words with the attitude of someone giving no fucks at all. Leila Deeley is a real shredder with interesting chord choices filling out the top end with precision and character. Bassist Tippi Morgan features a different effects chain on every single song with an inventiveness in how the low end is shaped and coloured, and Annabel Whittle’s drumming drives the whole thing with disco-inflected precision. Crucially, all four of them are leaving room for one another throughout, and you can focus on any single element and find a groove worthy of your full attention.

23 opens the album with tequilas and a taxi on the way, anchored by bass with a huge groaning vocal wah underneath Nile Rodgers-style disco guitar while Chloe holds the Julian Casablancas cool. Cross My Heart is super fast and groovy with a guitar riff running alongside the chorus that’s complicated without distracting. Downtown Lover brings classic ooh backing vocals and All Bad Parts arrives as an absolute highlight with a disco stomp and lyrics about feeling useless and devoid of positive qualities. It’s the perfect indie rock disco banger. Maybe Not Tonight has an aggressive sampler running through the chorus with the high drama of The Killers in the way the song breaks down and builds back up.

Body is a tremendous heartbreaker, vocals performed with maximum cool with lyrics about never feeling beautiful enough and watching someone across the room who has everything you wish you had. The contrast between the swagger of the delivery and the ache of the words hits hard, and Lifestyle continues the theme of envy, wishing you could swap places with someone who seems to have it better. Always Talking About You features a great opening line that proves Chloe’s commitment to writing down her most embarrassing thoughts and keeping every single one of them in and Do You Know What I’m Thinking closes the album with warmth, tenderness, and every instrument slightly out of tune. Joyful, danceable, emotionally rich indie from one of the most exciting British bands around.