If you’ve been keeping your ear hovering roughly somewhere near the indie ground recently then surely you can’t have failed to come across John & Jehn, everything about whom is the stuff of music writer’s dreams (or at least music feature writers- IMO, they’re actually quite hard to review)- an uber-cool and ultra-good looking French couple living in London who make equally impeccably chic music that also manages to be, like them, somehow lovely, friendly, playful and utterly adorable too. They’re like everything hipsters should aspire to be- replacing cocaine sniffs with warm hugs and face-collapsing giggles.Its hard to really pinpoint one song on this record that really defines what it is “all about” but conversely John & Jehn do have a very distinctive- well not sound really because this record is so varied, but I suppose *feel* to their music. I’d try harder to pin it down but it’s not like it actually especially matters- its just pop music. Chic, often slightly noisy pop music, but pop music nonetheless. And the record is I would say for one at its strongest when it really plays up to the pop, as well- see future single '20L07' with its girl-group rhythm pattern drum machines, stuttering, deceptively simple organ riffs and cooed/shouted/squealed orgasmically (on Jehn’s part) boy-girl vocals. The boy-girl part of course goes pretty much without saying, but still- its important to note because John and Jehn’s vocal interaction really does work very well indeed- see also 'Survive', another of the more openly poppy songs on the record and again a highlight, but this time a jangly indie-pop sort of a highlight, which really comes alive precisely because of the boy-girl nature of its vocals.Even when John & Jehn do veer towards something moodier (and usually more garage-oriented), though, as on 'Fear Fear Fear', 'Love Me', and the Velvet Underground & Nico-aping 'You, Far Away', they still can’t successfully disguise that adorable, candy-centred core (just see the split of this record into ‘Side John’ and ‘Side Jehn’- this is the sort of potentially slightly gimmicky gesture that I can really get on board with because THEY’RE SO BEAUTIFUL AND IN LOVE). Throughout there is something not quite *proper*, almost, about this record- like how their pictures often don’t look like proper band pictures, with them kissing in them and all. This is an album written and performed by two people who are in love and having fun. As John stated in a recent interview with DrownedInSound: “love first, music is nothing.” He then went on to say that he’d prefer the band to stop than for them as a couple to split- this is a very powerful statement, and one which really helps you understand the sort of place that John & Jehn are coming from, in terms of their personal relationship in regards to their music.In short then, a brief (VERY quick 35 minutes), catchy, wonderfully listenable record that is, yes, very cool- but still so charming that you feel that you could fall as in love with it as John and Jehn with each other. Personally it’s not quite gotten hold of my heart in a truly devotion-demanding way, but I do have an awful lot of affection for it (my one real complaint? The omission of 'Make Your Mum Be Proud'). Buy it, and pose near it clad all in black, with sunglasses on even though you’re indoors, and grinning like a fool. 82%Read our exlcusive interview with John & Jehn here. mp3:> John & Jehn: 20L07 mp3:> John & Jehn: Make Your Mum Be Proud