Bis
The New Transistor Heroes
[Grand Royal]
Rating: 8.6
When the first track started out with singer
Manda Rin (if you're reading this, please, please, please marry me) yelling out "Hey
you! Fascist man, working on your master plan," I rolled my eyes. "Just
what this world needs," I thought, "a Scottish bubblegum pop band with
Rage Against The Machine- style Politics For Dummies lyrics." That
feeling faded quickly, however, when I just sat back and listened to the
rest of the album. While there are a lot of mean bits in "Popstar Kill"
and "Tell It To The Kids," there doesn't seem to be any real animosity
included, and the vast majority of the album is very cute -- sweet
without being sickeningly so. Yet another coup by Grand Royal.
-Jeremy Stomberg