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1990s-- three Scottish lads who'll nip you faster than a snapper turtle should you even think of marring their moniker with definite articles or apostrophes-- are poised to take their peppy retro guitar pop to U.S. shores this spring.

The trio's Rough Trade-stamped debut Cookies-- recorded by ex-Suede chap Bernard Butler-- hits Stateside shops with a bang and a few snare snaps on July 31. If you can't contain yourself until then, scoop up 1990s' latest single, "See You at the Lights", on UK import beginning April 16 (and scope the video below).

To help the kids get familiar, 1990s will hop in the time machine and touch down tonight at NYC's Bowery Ballroom. They'll also turn up this weekend at Brooklyn's Union Pool for the ol' hipster litmus test, where you can catch them along with choleric noise-rock trio Clockcleaner.

And lest you View this band as just another bunch of fresh-faced Kooks, know that 1990s singer/guitarist John "Jackie" McKeown served time-- indeed most of the nineteen-nineties, as fate would have it-- fronting Glasgow's beloved the Yummy Fur alongside 1990s bassist Jamie McMorrow. The Yummy Fur also counted among their members, for a spell, a certain Alex Kapranos (then going by Alex Huntley) and a certain Paul Thomson-- two fellers would go on to do something called Franz Ferdinand.

Cookies:

01 You Made Me Like It
02 See You at the Lights
03 Cult Status
04 Arcade Precinct
05 Switch
06 Enjoying Myself
07 You're Supposed to Be My Friend
08 Pollok Shields
09 Risque Pictures
10 Weed
11 Thinking of Going
12 Situation

"See You at the Lights":

CD:

01 See You at the Lights
02 Super-Legal
03 Diabo

7":

01 See You at the Lights
02 Hayley Mills

1990s vs. 2007:

04-04 New York, NY - Scotland Rocks @ Bowery Ballroom *
04-06 Brooklyn, NY - Union Pool #
04-13 London, England - Forum
04-27 Birmingham, England - Frog Launch
04-28 Glasgow, Scotland - Starthclyde University
05-09 London, England - Mojo Awards @ HMV Oxford Street
05-12 Liverpool, England - Nation
05-24 Milan, Italy - Transilvania
05-25 Bologna, Italy - Covo
05-26 Ancona, Italy - Barfly
05-27 Rome, Italy - Zoobar

* with Sons and Daughters, Nicole Atkins & the Sea
# with Clockcleaner