If you're a band from Leeds, and a band in need, who you gonna call? The Kaiser Chiefs! Duels join an ever lengthening list of groups who've benefited from suckling from the teet of their fellow Loiners, gaining some welcome exposure and some pleasant words of encouragement whilst keeping a supporting brief on t'Chiefs tour earlier this year.
And you can spot the lineage a mile off; Pressure On You is a polished slice of Britpop revivalism, albeit with slightly baroque overtones attempting to push it somewhere slightly more glam. It's rather impressively haughty, puffing a pigeon chest out for a stu-stu-stuttering chorus which sounds like Shed Seven being drowned in a hessian sack. And for those still waiting to receive their Ladybird Book of Musical Allegories, that's a good thing.
Positively they aren't aping the sticky-indie skuzziness of either The Cribs or the Arctic Monkeys - you can't really imagine them "betting that you look good on the dancefloor", it's more likely to be "come upstairs and feel my velvet drapes". Slightly arch, slightly camp and slightly good, it shows that the current buzz around the North is not in danger of departing just yet.
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