Don’t let the plaintive piano on the short opening track ‘Mierda De Tu Burro’ fool you; this is full-on guitar-driven rock, albeit with a strong melodic streak at the heart of it all. Boasting influences as diverse as Blink 182, Funeral For A Friend and Angels & Airwaves (okay, not so diverse then) the spunky Dublin five-piece are already well road-tested having toured fairly consistently. Their full-length studio debut is certainly stirring stuff on a par with anything in its genre – the six-string assault of the two opening cuts proper, ‘Drama Drama’ and ‘Dear Temptation’ is as in-your-face as it gets. The testosterone however is kept in check by singer Christine, whose voice – a powerful thing in itself – is more than a match for the thundering riffs and pounding rhythm section.
The single ‘Just Because You Say It’ with a vintage sounding keyboard loop running through it is infectiously memorable. It’s not all four to the floor – ‘All Aboard The Bandwagon’ is punctuated by a nice acoustic middle-eight section while the folksy busk that is ‘Coolatore’ is almost pastoral.