Fujiya & Miyagi don’t really sound like anything. Instead, they sound like everything condensed into perfectly arranged three-minute chunks of infectious pop music; a strange hybrid of James Brown on Valium and Wire gone pop. Or maybe Serge Gainsbourg with a PhD in electronics backed by David Byrne’s Eno-produced scratchy guitar mixed by MF Doom. It’s Darwinism gone mad. Their songs are incisive snapshots of real lives that make household appliances sound threatening. They are steeped in vintage music from evocative Krautrock to deep soul, with wafts of early Human League synth, Floydian Englishness and the throbbing groove of Tom Tom Club, all filtered for modern times. Lightbulbs is a journey littered with fragmented images, anecdotes from the sublime to the ridiculous, blurry stories that you feel you shouldn’t have overheard. Each track an aural contamination set to itch your inner ear every waking moment. Fujiya & Miyagi’s Lightbulbs carves a niche of its own. This is truly contagious music; a unique take on modern pop music that’s completely their own.