5

Sweet but average indie

If you focus on the band name, Nightmare of You should be a gothic screamo band in the vein of Bullet For My Valentine; they're not even remotely gothic, rather sweet indie with a large dosage of saccharine just for good measure. For all that, while the press release warns that their 'songs... need to be served with an ASBO to be removed from your head' that couldn't be further from the truth. For a start it sounds like a million other indie tunes and leaves your head the minute it finishes.

Touches of the Libertines come through here and there and there's nothing that makes this song stand out, but still the band seem to have universal appeal supporting both Fall Out Boy and The Delays. It's hard to imagine why, though and, on the strength of this, there are better bands around.