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There's just one problem. This song. Quite why the NME is getting in a massive tizz about a band who seem to musically aspire to be nearly as exciting as Hard-Fi is beyond me. It doesn't seem fair on them as much as anything else. Cos it's not like they're doing anything amazing with their chosen musical genre - the late '80s Madchester scene - so why make claims that they're AMAZING, when they're just ALRIGHT?

The band have recently claimed to be mystified as to why old journalists are comparing them to '80s dance-rockers the Happy Mondays. And this seems fair. After all, they sound far too much like Flowered Up (look them up!) to be true Mondays copyists. This, by the way, is not a glowing endorsement. Flowered Up had a man dancing in a big flower costume, after all...

There will be people who see any dismissal of this band as an act of class warfare, or a failure to really GET what THE KIDS are INTO these days. But in the wider scheme of things, the Twang have none of the clanging fury of a true people's band like Oasis, none of the wit of those Arctic Monkeys, none of the raging creativity of Klaxons and only half of the passion of the View.

So, unless they've got other songs which are AMAZING, this is gonna be over before it starts...

Released: March 19th

(Fraser McAlpine)