Splashh are named after a water park. There's really nothing we can tell you that could sum up the band's aesthetic better than that.

Made up of one Brit, one Aussie expat and two Kiwis, Splashh defy international boundaries in the name of chilled out pop. Guitarist Toto Vivian told us how this unlikely band of bros came together.

"I've lived in London for five years. My parents live in Byron, in Australia; I moved over here when I finished high school. I met [frontman] Sasha [Carlson] when he came over to Byron with some mutual friends; I think he intended on staying but he spent all his money at the time. We jammed around a bit on some more electronic stuff. That was, like, two or three years ago. He ended up going home, and I was playing in another band at the time. I didn't see him until Christmas 2012 when he came up to my parents' house.

"I always set a little studio up when I go back home, so he came over and we just started writing. They weren't necessarily Splashh songs, but we just clicked. He said, 'you know what? I'm just going to move over. Seriously.' And I didn't take him seriously, because I remembered what happened last time he came over and had to go home straight away, so I was like, 'yeah, sure, man, do it, move over'. Literally a month later, he knocked on my door [in London]. 'Hey man, I'm here!' We started writing straight away, and within two weeks we had four songs. The ball was rolling.

"Tom [Beal] was the bass player in the band I was playing in at the time, and he's just a cool guy, so it made sense to have him on board. The final piece of the puzzle came a few days before our first proper show; we didn't have a proper drummer, so Sasha got on Skype and persuaded one of his good mates, Jake [Moore], who was actually playing in another band at the time, to move over. We bought him a ticket. He quit his other band on Sunday, got on a flight, had a rehearsal with us on Monday, and we played our first show together on Wednesday. That's the story.”

The carefree attitude of their music, written in sunny Byron but recorded in… less sunny… Hackney, will transport you back to the summers of your youth, when you kicked back on the beach with good friends by your side and the world at your feet. ("I think it helps," Vivian says of their East London digs, "if you can go somewhere else in your mind.")

Quickly building an audience via constant gigging and a sold out release on Jen Long's cassette-only Kissability label ("I've got the tape in my room," Vivian says; "I'll never play it, but I just like looking at it"), the band have struck while the iron's hot with debut album Comfort; a sleek package of distorted grooves, dreamy nostalgia and melody.

"I just want people to listen to it, I guess," Vivian says of the release. "Hopefully we'll just get to make a second record… I just want to keep writing good songs and keep playing them. If there's any way I can keep doing that, I'm happy."

Splashh will play their first Australian shows this month.
Fri Jun 28 — Goodgod Small Club (Sydney)
Sat Jun 29 — Ding Dong Lounge (Melbourne)

For more info, head to splashh.co.uk.