Labels: Parlophone
Review by: Andy Malcolm
What the fuck is this? Some kind of mod or something, but I don’t even know what mod is. They just look like the Monkees or the Who. They play tame rock, this is so neither here nor there, it is just utterly shallow and weak. If you are gonna look like the Monkees then play faster or inject some fun and enthusiasm into your sound. Lifeless, limp, pitiful. You have guitars, use them as fucking weapons! Create havoc! Pour your heart out! DESTROY. ENTHUSE ME. MAKE MY HEART SING. MAKE ME BE THANKFUL TO BE ALIVE. MAKE ME FUCKING SMILE YOU FUCKING FUCKS! Do not: be timid, use modern production techniques, play the cleanest version of rock music you heard in your entire life, bore me to death.
I bet they are trying to cash in on that whole Strokes thing but this fails miserably. Well, I can tell you something: Stroke me, you boring shite! Oh wait, it’s on Parlophone. Saints alive.