Summer Camp’s second album Welcome to Condale inhabits a world encapsulated by teenage angst, where simple events take on catastrophic significance, small arguments become meteoric crashes and first love actually is the end of the world.

Boy-girl duo Summer Camp, who have produced a handmade magazine as a guide to the fictional suburban town of Condale in which the album is set, have crafted an album enveloped in nostalgia for the culture of the 80s, translating the melodrama of the old TV programmes they reference into brash, infectious pop songs.The musical core of the record is well represented by self-titled track ‘Summer Camp,’ with reverb-laden drum beats backing unashamedly 80s synth lines that bounce and echo off of one another as Elizabeth Sankey delivers a characteristically soaring and effervescent vocal.

What keeps the album from veering into the territory of ironic pastiche is the endearing earnestness of it all: this is a band that completely embraces the material they draw inspiration from, without a hint of irony.

Indeed, some of the album’s best material comes from the band’s complete submission to the hyperbolic emotions of youth. ‘I Want You’ is a perfect representation of the obsessiveness of first love as one insistent electronic pulse changes tempo unpredictably, and slightly sinister layered vocal lines revolve around the speaker’s unquenchable desire to “make you love me so much you’d have to ask permission to breathe.”

Yes, this is mostly familiar material, but it is done with such flair and earnest skill that the hazy, idealized atmosphere moves from potentially cloying to endearing on the strength of 12 almost uniformly perfect pop songs.

Welcome to Condale may not be earth-shattering, but surrender to its lovingly designed world, and the songs may just take on the sense of overwhelming urgency of their characters’ angst-ridden vignettes.