Having made plenty of noise with their 2007 debut album on Modular, Fantastic Playroom, UK dance-poppers New Young Pony Club have spent the last couple of years in between relentless touring and shrouded studio limbo, recording the follow-up that record.

As reported previously by ITM, the UK live dance outfit have a new record, cheerily entitled The Optimist, scheduled for release on March 1st, and speaking to the NME recently, bandmember Tahita Bulmer gave fans an insight into the album’s recording process, likening the whole thing to “slogging your guts out”.

“Even on the first album you do a song, it was easy, great fun…but there were also moments when it was hard, it was grueling. It was same on this album, you’d have moments of pure inspiration and you’d have moments when you are slogging your guts out,” she explained.

Backing up these claims, fellow Pony Clubber (sounds wrong, don’t it?) Andy Spence described the process as some kind of bizarre torture-porn, saying he felt like he was “cutting my own guts out”. Are you sensing a theme here? It’s guts. So either NYPC’s new album will have some obtuse lyrics about the digestive system or it’ll be just as gutsy and inspiring as a Mighty Ducks movie. Flying V!

Uh, anyway, check out the first taste of The Optimist in the clip below for Lost A Girl.