Spiky, slightly chaotic Libertines-inspired guitars overlaid with some beeping and an early New Order beat sounds like a pretty good formula for success to me.
The Damn Shames are far from polished. In fact, at times they sound as if Fear of Assault has been recorded on a C90 behind the warehouse bike sheds while an illegal rave is going on inside, but there's a certain charm in this, if top-notch production values are something you consider to be an optional extra rather than a necessity.
Falling over themselves to drop in musical nods from everyone from Orange Juice to Klaxons, the Edinburgh three-piece perhaps fall a little foul of forgetting to leave room for anything overly original in the mix, but there's definitely enough promise for the future in there somewhere.
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