Come on !!! Yeah the guy has a Glaswegian accent but nobody ever lays into the Sex Pistols for Johnny Rotten sounding cockney as hell. This album is full of well written catchy, emotional rock songs and it's great to hear an indie band not influenced by the Libertines and Strokes for once (although I love both those bands). The only letdown is the track stabbed which is so miserable it sounds like it's taking the piss. Apart from that you get the singalong anthems such as Flowers and Football Tops and Go Square Go and also the weirdly brilliant Ice Cream Van which is basically the singer over a emotive rising ambient keyboard . One of my albums of the year
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