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They wear black leather jackets and shades and smoke tabs and hold their guitars at the correct cock-machine-gun angle. And, now and then, they make required neeneeeNAAAAAAAA noises with their "axes". Wow. How could they possibly fuck up? Easy! By having, in their ranks, yet another of those averagely-voiced, averagely-talented indie "singer-songwriter" fucks. Result – this is sooooo nothing special, it’s off the scale, man. A lesson for us all here. First thing you do when you form a band is find the hippy (there’s always one) and then purge the mutha. But wait! For the second track is entitled 'Urgh!!!’, and it goes uuuuuurgh!. It can only be the sound of Hoggboy strangling their symbolic "inner" hippy. Oh joy! Well done Hoggboy, and welcome.

Steven Wells

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