I Love You is their debut single, and couldn't be more British if it was found sitting next to a cricket pitch on a summer's day clad in an old school tie and sipping on a pint of warm ale. Singer Martin Wallace is able to do a remarkable impersonation of both Morrissey and Damon Albarn, too - quite possibly the best since competitions began. It's a shame, then, that they don't do anything of interest with this.

The guitar riff isn't bad, loud and fairly insistent for sure - it's just Wallace's dreary vocals completely dominate the track, and it refuses to go anywhere, plodding along aimlessly for its duration. There's no discernable hook, no changes of pace, nothing whatsoever to grab the listener - just overly earnest lines like "I'd cut my own throat for you". Probably won't be a festival smash, in other words.

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