Kasabian take note! Muse watch your backs! Kobai are on your trail...
This band initially hit you as a Kasabian imitator in the way Hard-Fi have come up on the success of the Arctic Monkeys and bands that sing songs about real stuff like the ATM (but don't name their song 'Cash Machine'). But the more you listen to their EP you go through stages of coming round to them until you realise they have more to offer than those one-trick ponies we compared them to earlier.
This is the sound of future guitar music, notes have been taken from Muse and Radiohead, in terms of the drum and guitar style and for the tunes they hark back as far as New Order and pay homage to acts more recent such as Snow Patrol and The Killers.
They're quite happy-go-lucky in their songs it seems, a rushing energy to 'Serotonin' that's pure pop with an edgier edge, and a total Matt Bellamy guitar-slamming riff in 'Electronic', which vocally comes across as The Stone Roses on a space shuttle.
Altogether it's music that's polished and perfected to suit a wide demographic, from kids to parents to indie insiders. Doesn't stand up against Muse's superb single 'Super Massive Blackhole', but does send a message to the rest of the songs on their new album: 'If you let your guard down, others will attack!'