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Tin Soldiers

Review

This might be just the ticket in thumping, riffy power-punk, built around don't-fight-it-you'll-only-lose melodic, sing-along, song-centric, hit-you-between-the-eyes rock 'n' roll.

Precisely forty seconds in to 'Five By Five', you're picking up your mobile to tell the world about its mighty fine rock chorus and its hectic, frantic Matt Wade guitar. The driving beat of '24 Hours' sees fashionable commercial sparkle created from something that's recognisably from a classic bygone era, and 'Wait For You' is an accessible muscular pop.

Tin Soldiers cleverly don't hide their timeless influences that range from 70s late-nite FM lighters-in-the-air, intimate for-your-ears-only, one-on-one vocals, to Skip Alan 100 Club heart-attack, powerhouse drumming from Chris Persiva that grabs you firmly by the cojones. Styles vary but are constantly catchy - 'Static' is a powerful noise sculpture; title track 'Telling Tales' irrepressibly bounces off all the walls before melody and riff win the day yet again, and best of all is 'Day By Day', a beautiful, light construction with Rich Crossingham's drop-dead gorgeous mesmerising vocal that I'm sure Andrew Montgomery and Jim Diamond will love as much as I do.

This is a damned fine album.