Latest releases reviewed
THE KILLERS
Somebody Told Me Lizard King
****
In which Brandon Flowers discovers that his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend looks like his old girlfriend. This new single from the Las Vegas rock pack sounds like their début single - actually, it is, originally out as a limited edition, and now getting a proper release. Killer.
DARIUS
Live Twice Brilliant/19
*
Years after he got bumped off Pop Idol for his bad Britney impression, Darius is still vainly trying to win the pop kids' hearts with his awful Enrique impressions. The video, apparently, features the very horse that Brad Pitt rode in Troy. You don't say.
KINGS OF LEON
Four Kicks HandMeDown
**
From the Followill brothers' second album, Aha Shake Heartbreak, here's a quickfire Southern boogie stomper that'll rattle your haycart and shake your wagon. The album's been on many critics' best-of-2004 lists, but I'm still waiting for the sucker punch.
KASABIAN
Cutt Off Paradise
***
It's the second coming of baggy, and these Leicester la's are bringing the thrills, pills and bellyaches with a groovy, driving tune from their fab début album, Processed Beats. OK, Primal Scream already passed by here with Vanishing Point, but this definitely makes the cut.
CLIENT
Pornography ToastHawaii/Mute
***
Robotic electro girl-on-girl action with Kate Holmes and Sarah Blackwood - what more could a paranoid android want? Waitaminute . . . who's that bloke muscling in on this sleazy synth-pop fantasy? It's Carl Barat from The Libertines! Gerrroutofit!
ROOSTER
Staring at the Sun Brightside
**
Here's a mansize Britrock band who plug into Oasis and Aerosmith, Embrace and Extreme, The Verve and Def Leppard. This song is destined for that high school movie scene where the guy loses the girl.
THIRTEEN SENSES
Thru the Glass Universal
***
Another band in the mould of Coldplay and Keane, these sensitive West Country boys have a delicate, high-voiced singer, Will South, but they also possess U2's horizon-gazing vision and Edge-like chiming guitars. I'm sensing fragility here.
