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The second single from Leeds-based Grammatics is ambitious, operatic artrock, in hock to Bowie, Suede and Echo and the Bunnymen. It’s a sumptuously decorated glam racket with a blast of Queens of the Stone Age-style rock and some dance beats but when you start to analyse it you realise, like a bogus birthday cake, it’s all topping, no filling. ‘Polar Swelling’ has a cello wailing prominently while Owen Brinley sings ‘Vive la difference!” but there isn’t one really to celebrate; it’s just overcomplicated pop music impotently thrusting out its groin .