http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrBYrZsp8tY
This song is just SO BRITISH. It's deliberate, even, with soaps and Eastenders and the line about carrots from the last World War, and Bridget Jones. This band is marketing itself to British folks as being British, native, local, important and big; to Americans as being British, foreign and unusual and clever. And it is — it's traditional pop-punk, swaying and shrinking and exploding into dynamics; a steady drum, shouted call-and-response, it's all very by-the-numbers — not a bad thing. Its numbers make it listenable, fun, exciting. These guys who want to look like kids are in a smart, marketable band that wants to look like a little punk startup, and it works for them.
It's just SO BRITISH.
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