250,000 people can't be wrong

There's no way we can pretend that we're onto anything new in demanding you take a few minutes today to listen to a band called Pacific!. At the time of writing this they'd already notched up a rather impressive 267,593 views on their MySpace page. Over the past week we've contributed about 20 of those visits, returning to listen to their truly amazing pop songs.

Hailing from Sweden, where being a decent popstar is practically law, Pacific sound like The Beach Boys for the 25th century, all harmonies, whooshes, bangs, pops and whistles. They also have an unecessary exclamation mark on the end of their name, and if there's one thing we know, is that if the subject matter itself is interesting enough, then you don't need an exclamation mark. It'll just sound like you are shouting.

Pacific! really don't need the extra punctuation, 'Sunset Blvd' is the greatest pop record of all time to use not only a wedding bell but a banjo as well. But while you might like to get married to 'Sunset Blvd', tracks like 'Number One' will simply make you want to go out and dance somewhere - even if it does sound a bit like the 'Only Fools And Horses' theme tune.

If you're not in the mood for a full song though, the 'T-Shirt taster mix' runs through their various sounds (from eighties dance to sixties influenced pop) in a neat two minutes.

But perhaps most exciting of all, Pacific! are tonight playing Durrr in central London. More exciting still is that they are playing alongside Pnau. We know it's a Monday (we have calenders after all) but we can't recommend a Monday night out more than we do this.

Tuesdays are rubbish anyway, so you may as well go out on a Monday. Tuesdays aren't even exciting if you put an exclamation mark on the end of the word.

'Tuesday!'. Nope, nothing...

Click here to listen to Pacific! at MySpace.