Listening to Peter Cat Recording Co is to be transported into a musical world without a sense of fixed time or place.

The group’s funk-inflected guitars and warm reverb of humming basslines might recall a West Coast ‘70s analogue feel, while their sharp trills of strings could take us to the ‘80s disco, crooning vocals to the Vegas strip of the ‘50s and buzzing synth lines into the globalised 21st Century. You might be forgiven for thinking you are listening to a lesser-known, rediscovered band from mid-20th Century America or a young British indie group seeking to emulate the sounds of their predecessors. The reality, however, is more unexpected.