Melodramas are four likely lads who brazenly rip off Brit-pop favourites like Suede, Artic Monkeys, Pulp and , most specifically, Supergrass. They've even hooked with Gaz Coombes for one of the four songs and recruited one time Supergrass producer Sam Williams.
They tear into the four tunes in a frenzied all hands to the pump fashion.
The title track makes a convincing pitch to the be the theme tune for a 'horror in the neighbourhood' B-movie . Elephant has some all the fun of the fair musical motifs. Beetlejuice is the one with the Gaz connection and Three Crosses winds up with a Lovecats style swagger.
All very old hat of course but , as it's delivered with the right amount of surly arrogance and wry wit, they look set to win friends and influence people, particularly if they can recreate the same energy live.
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