What exactly compromises a teen girl’s fantasy? Drinking large quantities of vodka? Riding in cars with boys? Emancipating herself from her parents? (Whatever happened to mucking out horses? - Ed.) For former classmates Nick Weiss and Logan Takahashi, who are neither teenagers, nor girls for that matter, TF meant a mutual love of classic house and techno and a desire to create “some kind of dance music that wasn’t just emulating what [they] were hearing.”

Whilst their 2010 debut 7am was an album of recycling (chopping and screwing old funk and soul tracks such as Love Committee’s ‘Cheaters Never Win’ and The Tammys' ‘Egyptian Shumba’ to create a nostalgic recasting of sleepless post-party existence), Tracer exclusively consists of new material. This album is more sophisticated in its production; album opener ‘Orbit’ twists and mutates at every given moment, beginning as an ocean of drum patterns and longing melodies and finishing as a violent stuttering of abstract noise. ‘EXF’ sees newcomer Kelela provide Deborah Cox-esque vocals over a showering of short vibrant jolts that could quite easily have come from Rustie. Her place on the album is one that sits alongside the likes of Panda Bear, Romanthony, and fellow R&S signee Laurel Halo. Each vocal is individual and distinct from the last; Panda Bear’s vocal on ‘Pyjama’ reverberates through staccato rhythms, whilst Laurel Halo’s appearance on ‘Mist of Time’ is fleeting, over-lashed by waves of delicate, hypnotic synth.

Tracer is staunchly more ambitious than its predecessor; the songs are more layered and variegated, creating complex structures that induce a more texturally engaging listening experience. Most notable perhaps, in their development, is their decision to leave behind the nostalgic disco samples of 7am. The American duo’s transition from sampling to using their own vocalists brings a diversified and organic atmosphere to the album, a clearer reflection of their visceral and emphatic live shows. In focusing on a more intimate creation of rhythms, Teengirl Fantasy have consciously created, a sound that they can call their own.