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Attack! Attack!
Attack! Attack!
Rock Ridge Music
Like Jimmy Eat World and the Get Up Kids, the Welsh outfit Attack! Attack! know how to tuck big choruses inside of propulsive rhythms and driving, hard-hitting arrangements. But what separates Attack! Attack! from their melodic American peers is that amidst those choruses they manage a nervous kind of Buzzcocks-like tension, which twitches away throughout the ten numbers on their debut album. Songs like "Honesty" and "Too Bad Son" are immediate and impossibly catchy, and they seem informed by an anxious pacing that gives them an endearing layer of edgy vulnerability. In the latter, singer Neil Starr openly declares: "I've seen the ending of the story/And it gets worse." But in spite of this Woody Allen-like self-effacement, Attack! Attack! know how to take their jittery arrangements and hurl them down the street, taking the corners in big, savage swings. "Say It To Me" fires a coy, funky verse, then somersaults into a soaring pop chorus; "Lights Out" pounds confidently away and the album closer "Time Is Up" is filled with frenetic ferocity. Agitation has never sounded this good.
—Alex Green
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