THEIR name comes from a song from The Chemical Brothers’ album Surrender, but Sunshine Underground are in no mood to wave the white flag.

The northern dance rockers could lay claim to paving the way for Foals and Two Door Cinema Club, but on their latest offering they largely ditch the guitars and bask in the neon fireball of eighties electro-pop.

“Every time we've released an album it's been a very different musical climate, but I’m massively excited about our new work,” says The Sunshine Underground front man, Craig Wellington, who brings his band to the county on Wednesday.

"There's a lot of disco, electronic influences in our new sound. In a way, it is the most exciting stuff we've done – there's a terrific vibe.

"And there's definitely an eighties undercurrent."

It is certainly an intriguing new sunrise for the band, and their leader added: "I went through a period of listening to 80s/90s synth-pop and I still do.

"This was a good opportunity to explore that, play on it, and get those Human League-style influences out.

It's been eight years since Sunshine Underground's debut – the hard-edged Raise The Alarm – a dance, punk classic, exploded on to the scene and made them the must-see festival favourites.

"The new album is like nothing you've heard before from Sunshine Underground," added Wellington.

"It felt like the weapons in our musical arsenal had grown massively in recent years and it was really exciting to start applying them."

The move away from the original sound was already happening by their second release, 2010's Nobody's Coming To Save You.

"Because it had been such a long time since our first record, we knew we wanted a sound that wasn't so guitar influenced.

"It was quite a long process for us to go from a traditional rock band to something more electronic and dance-influenced.

"It will be good to play a set with songs people do know and our new ones."

  • The Sunshine Underground with support from Pixel Fix. Preston 53 Degrees, £13.50. October 22.