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With soulful eyes, Oxfam suits and slower B-side The Times outdoing the title track, you can't help but wonder if 20-year-old Rob McCulloch might do well to position himself towards the hole in northern indie ballad land the demise of The Verve has left.
He's a bit of a grower, you see. The first time you hear Something Abuse, it doesn't come across as much - the kind of spiky guitars ubiquitous since The Libertines, gravelly voice with a tinge of a Manc accent.
But something about it makes you think it's worth a second listen and before you know it you’re lost in the lyrics, and their message that whatever your drug might be, if it takes you where you want to go and works for you, appreciate the value in that. Or, as McCulloch puts it: "But if that something takes you anywhere / That anywhere could lend you the truth." It draws you in and makes you realise that taken as a whole, he's offering a decent package. An indie singer/songwriter in the tradition of Morrissey or Lloyd Cole, he's a drug that definitely does work.
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