Less than four months after Wonderland was released, the strangely coiffured quartet release the fourth and fifth singles from the album. Have they never heard of the phrase 'milking it dry' one wonders?

Yet McFly's core audience won't care about such matters, and now that Blue and Busted are no more, they're probably the biggest boy band in the country. So why oh why do all their songs have to sound the same? Ultraviolet boasts the usual harmony-laden chorus, sunny guitars and banal lyrics about summer girls, nights going on and on and kissing under midnight. There are some nice touches, but it's all so predictable.

The 'other' A-side, The Ballad Of Paul K, is a bit more interesting, with its poignant lyrics of a middle-aged man wasting his life away being reminiscent of Blur at their best. Yet again though, musically it's set to the same old McFly template. Rather this than the moribund balladering of Westlife admittedly, but they really are going to have to develop their sound sooner rather than later.

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