The Duke Spirit's "The Step and the Walk"

This band is so quintessentially cool it's painful. 1) They are from London. 2) Their frontwoman Liela Moss is a)hot and b) sings with an audible British accent. 3) The band met at ART school and 4) they've been extolled in flavor of the month NME magazine.
Of course none of this is a guarantee that their music is any good, but like the nice popular girl you want to hate but just can't, The Duke Spirit is both pretty AND nice, figuratively speaking. All these cool factors really do contribute good things to their music. The accent is a welcome change from the gentrified American tone that so many Brit bands adopt, art + music = good (think how cool Beck is), and despite being a hype machine, NME has a good nose for sniffing out decent indie bands.
Aside from all the cool factors, their music hits the ear in just the right places. Smoky voiced Moss has that Nancy Sinatra coolness and sass, but distortion and dirt brings a bedhead sexiness with a fantastic 70's flair. Mmmm.