THE LOLLIES - Bang! Bang! Bang! Lookout, Lookout, Lookout!

So it's been out for ages, but who cares? It's records like this that make you realise there's still hope for the guitar yet. The glitzy, poppy tunes on this 5 track EP don't fail to delight with the amateurish performance from this London-based international four piece.

Kate St Claire's effortlessly too-clever-by-half lyrics perfectly evoke adolescent traumas and mock them simultaneously, without ever stepping over the line into heavy handedness. "Catch myself spinning reams of awful teenage poetry / a thousand different rhymes for how lovely he looks recently", she sings, poorly, on 'Boycrush Pusher', although the whole thing is filled with gems like that.

8/10
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