This Scottish trio have been garnering favourable comparisons to no lesser bands than the Foo Fighters and the Manic Street Preachers. Yet judging by this single, the first to be taken from their forthcoming second album, such assertions are slightly off-beam.
The Ideal Height consists of stop-start guitars that are janglier than a bag of change, a chorus with plenty of "doo-doos" and "whoas", while the band make profound(ish) statements like "everyone has a purpose, even the minions".
The pre-finale bridge is a lot meatier, perhaps demonstrating the influence of Therapy? producer, Chris Sheldon, but overall this is like nouvelle cuisine - tasty but insubstantial. And the less said about the needless, misogynistic cover art, the better...
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