You Me At Six: Hold Me Down

Busted brought punk-pop into the tweenage mainstream in 2002. And yet the advent of a younger audience has done little to blunt the evergreen appeal of the genre to teenagers with a surfeit of energy. Ambitious pogo-poppers You Me At Six hail from Surrey, but could come from Any Burb, USA, so completely have they internalised the conformist protocols of chugging riffs, chanted choruses and being too well-adjusted for the emo label. Polished, punchy Hold Me Down is their second album, replete with bouncy dramas about loyalty, betrayal and other perils of young love. Its sole insight is contained in the song title "There's No Such Thing As Accidental Infidelity"; not even the most fine-meshed musical sieve could unearth any originality here.