AlunaGeorge’s debut album Body Music is a slick mix of sharp electronics and noughties-era R’n’B.

No surprise then that the London duo were invited to play at New York Fashion Week on their recent American tour. It can’t be much fun playing to a fashion crowd, where no one is there for the music, though.

“You think they are too busy vibing and sizing each other up to listen,” explains singer Aluna Francis. “But then before long you have the cray cray voguers at the front and you notice guys all in black just staring right at you.”

Francis and producer George Reid, who were BBC Sound Of Music 2013 runners-up, come across as aloof as the fashion crowd.

But the story goes that they met when George asked former reflexologist Francis if he could remix a track for her old band, My Toys Like Me.

“Her voice is one of a kind,” he says about what prompted his approach. “That kind of thing doesn’t come around too often and naturally my ears are drawn towards the unusual.”

Francis reveals she made the decision they should be a two-piece.

“George assumed I would be a solo artist he would produce for, but I refused because he wrote the songs with me, so it was as much his art as mine.”

Body Music arrived earlier this summer, more than a year after the duo’s first release, You Know You Like It, whose futuristic glitch and snappy grooves marked them out as ones to watch.

They’ll be hoping for their first top ten single with Best Be Believing, due in November, which has pop nous, dancefloor appeal and single stamped all over it.

“It’s pretty different to our other tracks and we try and show a different side to us each time we do a release,” says Reid, writing via email from Australia, where they are finishing a tour.

Francis picks Outlines as her favourite on the record. It’s personal and philosophical.

“Outlines started out as my thoughts about how my friend lost her father a few years ago. After a while I started to incorporate my own experiences of loss and how the things left behind like pictures are both precious but also remind you of what you can never get back.”

She says Radiohead and Jeff Buckley’s lyrics inspire her writing, but a cover of Montell Jordan’s mid-1990s gangster done good grind fest This Is How We Do It, at the end of the record, is a more apt reference.