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There’s an tint of Echo & The Bunnymen to Sunny Day Sets Fire’s “End Of The Road’ – its just a shame that all to often they try to smother it under the kind of weedy guitars that even The Bees would find too limp-wristed. I can see this song being used in those opening moments of an episode of Hollyoaks, where the assembled body-beautiful stare into the middle-distance while the brain-dead viewers take a moment to drag up the memory of how yesterday’s episode ended from their necrotic brain-stems. That’s the kind of timbre this song brings with it.

This isn’t a bad release – judging by the other track of this double A-side, ‘Lack Of View’, the multinational five-piece (who while based in London, cold just as easily call Italy, Hong Kong, Sardina and Canada home) have clearly got ambition and ideas, its just a shame that The Flaming Lips had those ideas first, and had a stronger sense of what to do with them when they did.

It’s too cold to truly embrace sunshine music yet, and the thin and wispy vocals don’t carry the necessary warmth to deal with the March chills. With the Los Campesinos album still fresh in our minds (and indeed, still hogging the Music Towers stereo), its hard to think of why we should recommend this over so many other records that should really be occupying your attention right now.

‘End Of The Road’ is out now on Brikabrak Records.