With tart lyrics delivered deadpan in a faux-snotty Glaswegian accent, choppy and purposeful guitar parts, and precise, dance-punk rhythms that occasionally loosen into glorious Stonesian sloppiness, the band 1990s fit neatly into the early-2000s new wave revival, and, fittingly, released their 2007 debut album on post-punk stalwart Rough Trade. They formed--just as the decade they're named after ended--from the ashes of the popular indie band the Yummy Fur, thus ensuring a built-in audience, good press, and the support of peers such as Franz Ferdinand (who also feature former members of the Yummy Fur) and the Kaiser Chiefs.