Once we are past midsummer, long summer days take on the slight sadness of knowing that the season is edging to a close. This notion is grasped perfectly by French quartet Tahiti 80.

Their second album blends Style Council bouncing beats, Isley Brothers guitar solos, swirling orchestrations (courtesy of the Urban Soul Orchestra), horns and ever-changing Moogs, together with a childlike wonderment reminiscent of endless school holidays and jugs of real lemonade by the beach.

However, submerged beneath the teasing dance invitations of tracks like 1,000 Times, there is the same tinge of melancholy that makes the Beach Boys' records so enduring.

Singer and main songwriter Xavier Boyer's vocals are almost disturbingly wistful, and there is a nagging dread and tension in lines like Get Yourself Together's "Make things happen while there's still time".

An album for hot afternoons and pensive showery days, the perfect July-September soundtrack for us weather-ruled Brits.