Indie-pop newcomers TEDDY get political on debut track "Happy Tim" [Premiere]

The track bears similarities to other leftfield noise purveyors like Dutch Uncles, Wild Beasts and Flyte - think guitar chirrups, shoulder-shrug basslines and endlessly moreish vocal hooks. It's a grand pop tune at heart, and TEDDY lay on a sublime spread of earworms to us to engorge our minds on.

The lyrics aren't subtle in their denouncement of certain political mindsets, with tongues so far in cheek they're practically through it: "I wanna live on my own, away from the refugees/I wanna live on my own, away from their disease/this is happiness/this is happiness/this is happiness..."

Speaking about the track, the band explain the satirical choices behind the lyrics:

"Tim is an archetypal city slicker. His priorities are his biceps and his career. For Tim, anything that is unfamiliar to the corporate world he inhabits is an infectious risk. Instead of embracing the people and experiences outside the borders of his office, Tim fantasises about locking himself away. This bubble mentality plays into the immigration debate that has dominated the upcoming election - sometimes it is an all too easy solution to close the borders, both physically and mentally. Like everyone else Tim is striving for ‘happiness’, but he hasn’t got there yet... Tim characterises anyone outside the confines of his clinical world as a refugee. In Tim's mind, refugees are an uncomfortable distraction from the job in hand, that he would do best to ignore, in spite of the moral dilemma. Ignorance, for Tim, is quite literally bliss."

TEDDY perform at The Islington on 28 May for their second 'Teddy Party'.

Check out "Happy Tim" below.