INARA George and Greg Kurstin, alias The Bird and The Bee, are an army of two.

They are also two of the most talented instrumentalists you are likely to meet, with pedigrees that would make most bands shiver with jealousy.

Multi-instrumentalist Greg was a jazz prodigy by the time he started shaving; he moved to New York specifically to study with leftist Jaki Byard - a jazz icon best known as Mingus' pianist.

He then returned to Los Angeles, where he became one of the city's best respected musicians, lending his skills to the likes of Beck and Robert Moog as well as writing with and/or producing the likes of Peaches, Lily Allen and The Flaming Lips.

To give the story a pleasing symmetry, Inara grew up in Los Angeles in a musical household, the daughter of Lowell George, frontman of the eclectic 70s Southern rock band Little Feat.

She flitted between bands in the LA area, before releasing 2005's critically acclaimed solo work All Rise (no, not the Blue song).

During the making of the record, Inara met Greg Kurstin.

Over the course of the next three yeasrs they whiled away afternoons in Greg's home studio, immersed in a world of their own making, busy creating the 10 sunshine-drenched, semi-psychadelic ditties that make up their debut album, released next week.

The debut single, which for the purposes of remaining a family newspaper we will refer to as My Flipping Boyfriend, is released today. It may document the agitation of a troubled heart, but it's also pure dancing shoes.

The Bird And The Bee - our new favourite band. Officially.