“We’re pretty hot. There’s really no way around it,” says Jamie Ayers, the 20-year-old Philadelphia native looking up from his astrology homework. Ayers and Sam Skarstad, also 20, met in September 2005 and began writing and recording songs recounting young summers spent sitting around watching the real world and dancing complex coordinates to other drones. Since then they have settled into a sound that combines synth pop and graham crackers in a raw contemporary rockand roll honeycomb structure. “We like raw pollen and we like hard work, our queen is very proud”, chirps Ayers.

After a number of small and scattered releases, Snakes joined up with Famous Class and decided it was time to create a full-length record, hence the sweaty, sweet “I’ll Be Lovin’ You”, the debut album which was recorded shirtlessly over a period of two weeks in a wooden attic in Philadelphia various summers ago. “We wanted to create something exclusively for teenage girls. There’s not enough out there for them these days”, says Skarstad, adjusting his cashmere scarf and platinum ski goggles. After four sleepless nights and one nervous breakdance, the album wasfinished. “The driving synths and heavy beats combine with the spastic live show to create some sort of new experience”, says Ayers, staring longingly at an aged waitress. “We’ve all heard so much about the missing discourse of desire”, he gestures broadly with a flourish of his gaudily bejeweled prosthetic hand, “I think it literally boils down to the fact that everybody is insanely jealous of me.”