It draws on more than one key and more than three chords; meanwhile, Foo has ditched playing bass guitar to concentrate on singing. The results still hum with history, but this time in the form of surf twang, Elvis croon, romantic swoon and girl-bop that goes "woah oh-oh oh-oh". The results come across like a neatly be-quiffed rock'n'roll revivalist meeting, albeit set in a graveyard rather than a diner. But Wagner and his main collaborator, Sharin Foo, make their knowing guitar pop sound distinct, too.

Sure, on paper, their first two releases, the 2002 mini-album Whip It On and their debut album, 2003's Chain Gang of Love, sound like art-pop experiments, with the attendant risk of sterility that entails. When we gave her the song, she freaked out - she was so happy, like a kid in a candy store. It was wonderful! She did an amazing performance and kept saying, 'I feel like I'm 16 years old again.'" It's the kind of refreshing effect The Raveonettes have on pop. With cute conceptualism, all the songs on Whip were in b-flat minor and those on Chain in b-flat major; both set the angel-faced melodies of a Buddy Holly and Everly Brothers tint to dirty drumbeats, beat-generation imagery and thickly distorted guitars. Happily, pop history loves them back, as their new single, a California-dreamy take on girl-band basics called "Ode To LA", makes nice and clear. At its halfway point, a voice right out of the past cuts and croons through the harmonies - that of the Queen Ronette, Ronnie Spector.

"You feel that she's had a rough life," says Sune Rose Wagner, the singer, guitarist and one half of the boy-girl duo at the heart of The Raveonettes, "but you can also tell that she truly loves music. They may be given oxygen, bleeding is stopped and fluids can be given intravenously."It is addressed in a very co-ordinated way You have to have a system in place. Medical teams have been waiting for something like this attack to happen," Dr Heyworth said Some injuries looked more dramatic than they were. If there's one thing we know about The Raveonettes, a band who sound both of the moment and straight out of 1955, it's that they love their pop history. "The idea came from a presentation I did at the UN in New York," he says. "I chose a very humanistic, pro-peace repertoire, and 'Imagine' appears because it's peaceful...