THE band is called Does It Offend You, Yeah? and their sole album is called You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into. If you hadn't heard their music - a day-glo explosion of synthesisers and guitars that sounds like a bunch of horny robots and hedonistic humans crudely trying to seduce each other - or if you didn't know the four-piece's name came from a quote from genius TV comedy The Office (the Brit version), you might think DIOYY? were the most confrontational band on the planet.

"I've never really thought of it as being like a confrontational thing, I suppose, because I'm in the thing," says guitarist, synth abuser and sometime singer Morgan Quaintance from his London flat. "But yeah, it's kind of funny when people think we're like Slipknot or Insane Clown Posse or something and we're gonna throw piss on everybody. It's just the name of a group."

Does such confusion amuse them? Annoy them?

"Oh, it amuses me. I mean, come on - it's better than being ignored, isn't it? I just think [the band name and album title are] in keeping with the nature of the record, really, and the way that it's kind of evolved. It's supposed to be a thing where it's, like, easily accessible and kinda funny and tongue-in-cheek."

Pop-culture aficionados as well as fans of brain-frazzling electro-rock will get a kick out of You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into.

The '80s teen-flick king John Hughes is one of the more obvious heroes of the band, with Being Bad Feels Pretty Good taking its title from a line from Hughes's The Breakfast Club, while another song on the album is called Weird Science. A couple of the album's sweeter, poppier tracks could even have appeared on the Pretty In Pink soundtrack. Quaintance doesn't care for such reference points, even if his bandmates do.

"It's kind of a contentious thing," he says. "If the majority wants to go that way, well, then I'll go that way. I like the '80s but not for the cheesy reasons, y'know? I don't like Kajagoogoo and things like that. I'm more into, like, post-punk bands and stuff."

Despite their various influences from the past, Does It Offend You, Yeah? are nonetheless very much a band of the MySpace generation; the kind that not only live to make and share their music but also enjoy the fact the line dividing artists such as themselves from their fans has almost disappeared.

"It kind of suits the music, I think - that it's the sort of band that people feel that they can just come up to you and ask you things," Quaintance says. "We could come out with some stupid image and be like, 'Oh, we're like electro punks, we only wear neon' or 'We only wear red sunglasses' and 'Whoa, we never talk to people because we're so caught up in the network'. We're just, like, regular people making tunes. I think that's all that's needed, really."