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What - like it's 1984?

I reckon Swiss pop-rockers 7 Dollar Taxi are going to be bloody huge.

Why? Let's consider the evidence. 7 Dollar Taxi are Scandinavian (cool), 7 Dollar Taxi are young (super cool), 7 Dollar Taxi are a relatively attractive bunch (ice-cool) and 7 Dollar Taxi play guitars and stuff and presumably bounce around stages like Duracell bunnies on crack (cold-as-ice).

Only one downside; they sounds like Hanson vs. Violent Delight vs. Orson vs. Cast.

Ouch.

'Do The Robot' is a jumpy, jerky, springy, happy, perky six-string strum that although infectious for the first couple of seconds, really starts to piss you off after the next twenty. Why? Because it's only at this point that its youthful optimism and ridiculously forthright hedonism forces you to remember that you too were once young; young and brimming with sanguinity, poise and enthusiasm. And then you take a look at yourself in 2008 and realise that you're the wrong side of thirty, addicted to snorting Cif of an evening and enjoy watching The Antiques Roadshow in your pants.

Therefore, I issue the following R13 Health Warning:

DO NOT listen to 7 Dollar Taxi if you are aged over twenty five. You will only be hurting yourself.

Oh - and another reason why I don't like it much is because it sounds like 7 Dollar Taxi nicked a few vocal licks from 'Word Up' by Cameo - and that's just fucking criminal.