One Line CD Reviews: We Are Scientists, Richard Hawley, Clor, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Death Cab for Cutie, The Chalets

Welcome to the one-line (or so) CD review. These are just some of the albums and singles we’ve been inflicting upon ourselves recently.

We Are Scientists, With Love and Squalor – It’s the completely unnecessary bastard child of Hot Hot Heat, These Animal Men and Powder. Americans doing Britpop with noisier guitars. The world could exist quite happily without We Are Scientists. Best avoided.

Richard Hawley, Coles Corner – How lovely can one man be? This is Frank Sinatra meets alt.country as sung by a Yorkshireman. It’s like a big warm, fluffy blanket in the middle of winter. Nobody else does this and nobody else could.

Clor, Clor – Devo meets Gary Numan meets Wire meets Franz Ferdinand as interpreted by art students with a real feel for melody. It’s ace!

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – This is the sound of David Byrne fronting The Smiths. The melodies are so fabulous that the singer’s slightly trying voice doesn’t matter one bit. Buy this now!

Death Cab For Cutie, Plans – Death Cab sounding like themselves only even poppier. You can’t improve on a great formula, only throw some major label money into it to make it more radio friendly. I still don’t understand why people keep calling this emo. Yay for Death Cab!

The Chalets, “No Style” – This could be the Irish B-52’s without the nasal whine of Fred Schneider. It’s catchy, it’s upbeat, it’s clever, it’s got a great tune, some fantastic girlie harmonies and is simply three and a half minutes of pop perfection.

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