Why do we like this?

Turn on “Sickly Sweet” by FOURS and instantly you’re soaring over a sun-flecked ocean on the back of a majestic flying blue whale. Yes, a flying blue whale.

Then it does a barrel roll, launching you off and landing you in the middle of a gigantic floating flower field where thousands of colorfully-dressed people are dancing, embracing, and joyously singing along to this song. Frozen lemonade rains down from the heavens. People are dropping to their knees and proposing to each other. A flock of birds is doing a mid-air synchronized jive over the scene. The whole thing is a beautifully chaotic celebration of life and love.

In other words, it’s massively empowering and gets the imagination running wild, even if it's centered around “someone trying so hard that it actually just puts you off.” I’ve pressed play on it's zesty guitars and bubbly electronic bloops maybe two hundred times since I first heard this track a couple days ago, and it only gets better with time.

FOURS are best friends Edith (vocals), Dan (guitar), Jez (bass) and Luke (drums), from Shepherd's Bush in West London. “Sickly Sweet” follows last month's “Painful To Watch” and their 2015 debut EP Everything I Never Said, both of which rock.

They’ve recently found themselves on Spotify and Apple Music’s best of charts, they’ve opened for Shura, and they’ve been played on BBC Introducing and Radio X, but most importantly they’re your new favorite band.