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Another American band wanting to sound like Death Cab for Cutie, I thought, as I listened to You Are Here. But despite co-headlining an American tour with Elbow, featured on the O.C. and Six Feet Under soundtracks and championed by Elijah Wood, they’re born-and-bred Londoners (formed at Haverstock School in Camden, indeed) though you’d never know it from their sound, accents and inoffensively bland lyrics. Strangely, the first and last tracks show masses of potential: ‘Wasted’ has an elegantly debauched air while ‘Beautiful Freak’ is an object lesson in heartbreaking minor key melodies. But the 12 tracks that lie between those songs are slick, glossy and over-ambitious artrock. It’s as if they wrote their tracks to formula, with ‘Every Light Has Blown’ their big ballad, ‘Zither Song’ their epic and ‘Lonely Highs’ their pop song. But if that’s the case, what label for ‘She’s Half Crazy’ other than a freakily-rhythmed cod-funk fusion of Television and Roxy Music? They’ve been knocking around the indie scene and searching for their break for some time now and I don’t think this album is going to change that fact any time soon.
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