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Opening like The Bravery but without all those awful over-vocoded vocals, ‘She Get It’ by Newcatle-Upon-Tyne’s Freerunner has the potential for instigating some new millennium indie shoe-shuffling. It’s just a shame that it suffers from the kind of listless production that leaves it toothless and neutered. And that freeform middle 8 is almost jazz-like in it’s unplanned jam. Urgh.

Lurking on the eardrum equivalent of the corner of your eye, the faintest whisp of Libertines-esque guitar jangle lurks in ‘Friday Don’t Need It’. Vocalist Robert Coors probably thinks he’s ploughing a lyrical furrow that we can all relate to when he shrilly squawks “Cause everybody wants to get with another girl, just because it’s a Friday, and everybody wants to act like they rule the world, once a week on a Friday”. But instead he just reminds us of how small, how petty, how small-town, Freerunner are coming across as sounding.

Closing track ‘Cold’ is just wetter than a paper hat in a monsoon. It’s got the mawkishness of  worst karaoke Jeff Buckley impersonator, without any of the edgy crackle that’s needed to make this track shiver your spine like you’ve just had liquid nitrogen pumped directly into your vertebrae.

If someone gave these boys a slap and told them to get their shit in order, and to stop half-recycling a few discarded ideas from the bands from the day before last week, they might come up with something worth listening to. As is, this makes The Feeling seem challenging.

‘She Get It’ is released on September 17 on Label Fandango