This review could be over in three words if I dared to utter ‘Taking Back Sunday’. So, if you can’t be bothered to read this and you’re a big TBS fan, Ambry’s debut is a worthy purchase.

Fugazi fans would be smashing their stereos with their air guitars if this album was pressed to play in their presence. Opening with the aptly titled ‘Better Scene Than Heard’, Ambry burst into epileptic fits of melodic guitar riffs coupled with the most monotone vocals you’ll ever hear. You can’t help but thinking lead vocalist, Christopher Thibault, is reading the lyrics off the screen of a karaoke machine whilst bouncing on a pogo stick. Drummer, Derrick Flanagin, also seems to be giving Meg “wow I can bang sticks on drums really hard and slowly” White a bit of competition.

As I’m writing this I’m desperately trying to pick out a few tracks which are my favourites…but all the songs sound the same. Each has a pleasant melody coupled with the obviously emo lyrics, although the most memorable are those of ‘Dancing with Confusion’, “my mind’s forgetting my mother’s advice, never play with knives and alcohol, it’s so sad I’m everything to her”. If you’re looking for a couple of songs to have a little dance to in your bedroom, turn the volume up on ‘Better Scene Than Heard’ and ‘If Practice Makes Perfect, We Need More’. I also quietly giggled to myself when I read the title of track 8, ‘32 teeth and I still can’t bite my tongue’. Perfectly emo….and I love it.

Don’t get me wrong, this album isn’t too bad. It’s pleasant and worth of a singalong, but the whole album’s structure is about as intelligent as a glamour model’s first autobiography. Unfortunately I think they are about to become the next London Astoria filler …expect to see their name tippexed on every stretched-eared teenager’s schoolbag soon.

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