GOT your flouro clothes, your dayglo bag and 50p beach glasses from the kiosk? Check. Beaten-up keyboard plugged in? Check. Bag of something naughty for the weekend? Check. And you're not yet 21. Great.
Late of the Pier are being talked about as saviours of pop. They're not. What they do is knock out a chunky brand of synth pop that is clearly in thrall to Klaxons' art-conscious debut. Don't get me wrong, this knocks Hadouken! into a cocked hat, but that's a kind of back-handed compliment.
Closing track Bathroom Gurgle is a shiny highlight to compete with new single Heartbeat, but Mad Dogs and Englishmen saps the spirit such is it reliance on nothing that's remotely different from countless other electro pop saviours from Justice to originators like Sparks.
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