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BY Dave Morris March 26, 2008 15:03
Finding a band cute because of their misfires in trying to speak English feels wrong, like making fun of developmentally delayed people. But when an Italian band decides that they want to sing like The Damned and in gratuitously fake Cockney accents, despite the fact that they still sound Italian and don’t really understand the language (sample lyric: “girls are rather behaved / for what regards these games”), the broken-telephone effect inevitably factors into the fun. The fact that they’ve got a handy way with a spiky melody doesn’t hurt either. Though nothing tops the breakneck pop-punk of album opener “Talking On The Phone” and closer “Panic At The Party,” singer Jago channelling Brandon Flowers on the mid-tempo tracks is a fine and MTV Europe–friendly choice.
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