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Stop Drop & Roll!!!

Yes, it’s those pesky Green Day ’scamps’ operating under yet another pseudonym. In the wake of the massive global success of American Idiot, they’ve chosen to write a love letter to Sixties beat-pop rather than taking their cue from the post-Dickies US punk scene that has defined their day job. It’s in thrall to all those (mainly) UK acts who attempted to crack the States, all full of dumb chords and wheezing organ (and, on ‘Dark Side Of Night’, spooky-flute). The early gnaw-marked Kinks are the obvious reference point, but the foot soldiers of the pre-Nuggets Brit invasion such as Herman’s Hermits, The Dave Clark Five, Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders, and even The Monkees (they were 25% British after all) snake around this album which is big on stoopid choruses and, more importantly, big on fun.